Staff AI Development Engineer (Enterprise AI Ecosystem)

Qualcomm

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Austin, TX Posted 87 days ago $134,800–$202,200 / year
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TL;DR

As a Staff AI Development Engineer at Qualcomm Atheros, Inc., you will join the cutting-edge Internal AI Ecosystem team as a lead architect responsible for designing and implementing a proprietary internal AI framework using LangGraph and LangChain. Your daily tasks include building robust multi-agent systems that autonomously reason, plan, and execute complex engineering tasks across Qualcomm’s vast data landscape, while also contributing to the development of an internal Python AI SDK and creating standardized interfaces for secure agent interactions with enterprise systems. You will leverage your expertise in Python, AsyncIO, Pydantic, and LangChain/LangGraph to write high-performance asynchronous code, design microservices, and implement advanced retrieval strategies like GraphRAG. Additionally, you will mentor junior engineers and define best practices in AI application development for the company’s global engineering workforce.

Skills

Python LangChain LangGraph AsyncIO Pydantic LLMs Embedding Models Vector Stores Distributed Systems Micorservices REST Docker Kubernetes CI/CD Milvus Qdrant Chroma Neo4j Ragas DeepEval

What you'll do

  • Design and implement complex AI workflows using LangGraph to enable autonomous agent behavior.
  • Develop robust state management systems for long-running agent conversations in a "human-in-the-loop" environment.
  • Create custom orchestration layers where specialized agents collaborate through defined graph edges and conditional logic.
  • Contribute core features to Qualcomm’s internal Python AI SDK, simplifying LLM consumption across teams.
  • Write high-performance asynchronous Python code using asyncio for concurrent agent execution and token streaming.
  • Design API microservices with FastAPI to expose agent workflows, ensuring strict typing and validation.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Python with deep understanding of AsyncIO, Pydantic, decorators, and metaprogramming.
  • Proven hands-on experience building applications with LangChain and LangGraph.
  • Solid understanding of LLM mechanics including context windows, tokenization, and temperature.
  • Experience architecting distributed systems, microservices, and handling state in stateless environments.
  • Mastery of AI fundamentals such as embedding models and vector stores.

Market check

Salary context

This $134,800–$202,200 range sits above 22% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$174,610–$258,550

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$182,175–$246,150

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Qualcomm

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

Qualcomm currently has 595 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $148,300–$222,500 across 540 roles with salary data.

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