Senior Engineer, Machine Learning

Qualcomm

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
San Diego, CA
Salary
$140,800–$211,200 / yr
Posted
27 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Mar 29, 2027

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Below market

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About Qualcomm

Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company based in San Diego, CA.

Qualcomm currently has 575 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $147,900–$221,900 across 550 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer, Machine Learning

The Senior Engineer - Machine Learning joins the Machine Learning Engineering group to design, develop, and optimize machine learning systems for next-generation AI platforms. This role involves building scalable training, evaluation, and deployment workflows while developing reusable ML components and libraries. Key responsibilities include optimizing model inference for latency and throughput using quantization, caching, and batching, as well as integrating LLMs into APIs and microservices. The candidate will utilize Python, C++, Rust, or Go alongside frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow. Technical requirements include experience with transformer architectures, RAG pipelines, and distributed computing in GPU environments. The work focuses on solving production-grade AI challenges, including model serving infrastructure, vector databases, and cost-aware system designs for multimodal models and agentic AI workflows.

What does a Engineer earn in California?

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What you'll do

  • Design and implement machine learning models and production pipelines.
  • Build scalable training, evaluation, and deployment workflows.
  • Optimize model inference for latency, throughput, and cost using quantization and batching.
  • Integrate ML and LLM models into APIs, microservices, and custom runtimes.
  • Design data pipelines for ingestion, preprocessing, feature engineering, and validation.
  • Build and maintain model-serving infrastructure such as vLLM and ONNX.
  • Benchmark and profile models across diverse workloads and hardware environments.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of relevant engineering experience, a Master's degree and 1+ year of experience, or a PhD.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and at least one systems language such as C++, Rust, or Go (preferred).
  • Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals, transformer architectures, LLMs, and model evaluation (preferred).
  • Experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow (preferred).
  • Experience with model deployment, serving systems, and building scalable software and APIs (preferred).
  • Experience with LLMs, multimodal models, generative AI, and RAG pipelines (preferred).
  • Experience with distributed computing, GPU/accelerator environments, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines (preferred).
  • Knowledge of model optimization, vector databases, and cost-aware system design (preferred).

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