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General Summary
Qualcomm AI Research is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building AI‑powered applications. The role focuses on rapidly transforming cutting‑edge AI research into working prototypes, especially agentic AI systems that combine foundation models, tools, memory, planning, and reasoning. You will work closely with AI researchers to develop and validate next‑generation agentic experiences across mobile, edge, cloud, and Snapdragon‑powered platforms.
What You’ll Do
- Develop prototype applications and system components that showcase advanced AI capabilities.
- Collaborate with AI researchers to transform emerging AI technologies into compelling end‑to‑end experiences.
- Rapidly prototype and evaluate new agent architectures, workflows, and user experiences.
- Build proof‑of‑concept systems that integrate AI agents with mobile, edge, cloud, and device capabilities.
- Architect clean, maintainable, and extensible software systems that support rapid experimentation and iteration.
- Contribute to internal frameworks, tools, and infrastructure that accelerate AI prototyping.
Key Responsibilities
- Agentic AI Application Development: Design and implement software components, frameworks, and end‑to‑end prototypes.
- AI Integration & System Development: Work with AI researchers and system engineers to integrate and evaluate AI models and agentic workflows, including tool integration, orchestration logic, memory systems, runtime integration, and end‑to‑end data flows.
- Software Engineering Excellence: Drive high‑quality software design, architecture, testing, and maintainability. Build internal tools and automation to improve engineering productivity and prototyping velocity.
- Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with researchers and engineers to deliver impactful prototypes. Communicate technical designs, trade‑offs, and implementation details effectively.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of software development experience OR Master’s degree and 3+ years OR PhD and 2+ years OR equivalent industry experience in systems or mobile development.
- Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Python, C++, Java, Kotlin, Go, or Rust.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including architecture design, modularity, testing, debugging, and performance optimization.
- Experience designing and building complex software systems with clean, maintainable code.
- Experience developing applications or systems from concept to working prototype.
- Excellent problem‑solving and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building agentic AI applications using LLMs, multimodal models, tool calling, workflow orchestration, memory systems, planning, reasoning, or multi‑agent architectures.
- Familiarity with agent frameworks such as LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, MCP, or similar technologies.
- Experience evaluating and improving agent reliability, task completion, and user experience.
- Experience rapidly prototyping AI‑powered applications and bringing research concepts to working demonstrations.
- Experience integrating AI‑powered features across mobile, edge, cloud, or embedded platforms.
- Familiarity with Snapdragon platforms or on‑device AI deployment is a plus.
- Experience building internal tools, automation systems, or developer productivity solutions.