Senior Engineer, Machine Learning
Qualcomm
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This role pays less than 74% of similar roles. Most pay $175,512–$247,216 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $176k versus about $211k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company based in San Diego, CA.
Qualcomm currently has 623 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $148,300–$222,500 across 603 roles with salary data.
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As a Senior Engineer - Machine Learning within the Machine Learning Engineering team, you will design, develop, and optimize machine learning systems to power next-generation AI platforms and applications. You will be responsible for building scalable training, evaluation, and deployment workflows while developing reusable components and libraries. Your daily work involves optimizing model inference for latency and throughput using techniques like quantization and batching, as well as designing data pipelines for feature engineering. The role requires expertise in Python and systems languages like C++, Rust, or Go, alongside experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Kubernetes. You will work on LLMs, multimodal models, and RAG pipelines while managing model-serving infrastructure. This position addresses the technical challenge of delivering production-grade AI capabilities through robust, high-performance systems across diverse hardware environments and distributed computing architectures.
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