Senior Software Engineer

Qualcomm
San Diego, CA


Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Software Engineer, you will design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications across sub system – Multimedia, AI/Gen AI and Computer Vision, and/or specialized utility programs that launch cutting-edge, world class products that meet and exceed customer needs. Qualcomm Software Engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces.

  • Design, and Develop Multimedia and AI frameworks/SDK components to facilitate end application development across the various categories of IOT products such as – Drones, IP/Security Cameras, AI box, Media devices.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 4+ year of experience with Programming Language such as C, C++.

  • 2+ year of experience with AI & Gen AI Inference frameworks – Pytorch, Tensor flow, ONNXRT, Llama CPP. Understanding of AI concepts/fundamentals, different AI model architectures, tensor layout, tensor conversion. understanding the math required for tensor processing etc.

  • 2+ year of experience with Gen AI Orchestrator – LangChain, LangFlow, building Agentic and RAG applications.

  • 2+ year of experience with Multimedia frameworks (Android, Tizen or any other OS), understanding/knowledge of under lying HALs (Camera, Audio, Video, Graphics/Display, CV, and USB/UVC).

  • 2+ year of experience with Android frameworks. Understanding of AIDL/HIDL, Binder, developing System and Vendor services, writing the Java/JNI Bindings.

  • 2+ year of experience with building AI applications (vision and audio based), different types of AI model architectures - traditional (classification, detection, segmentation, pose-net) and new class of AI models (Gen AI), understanding of pre and post processing of tensors required to integrate AI model in end to-end pipelines with different types of media sources (camera, audio, text etc.)

  • 2+ years of experience with Linux System level programming, multi-threading, concurrent execution, DMAs/IONs, different IPCs – Binder, gRPC, zero copy mechanism etc.

  • 2+ year of experience with writing GLES/GLSL Shader Programming, programable Gfx pipeline.

  • 2+ year of experience with writing Vulkan Shaders, programable Gfx pipeline.

  • 2+ year of experience with Gstreamer, open-source framework to build AI/Multimedia product applications.

  • 2+ year of experience with Docker/Containers, understanding of general OCI container standards, and specifications.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail [email protected] or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here . Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

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EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :

$111,300.00 - $166,900.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link .

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers .

Posted 2026-02-04

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