AI Researcher: On-Device Agentic AI
12 Hours ago • 3 Years +
Research Development
Job Description
Qualcomm is a global leader in mobile technology innovation, at the forefront of developing next-generation on-device AI technologies. The Qualcomm AI Research Korea conducts core AI research and development, creating intelligent agent technologies to revolutionize user experience. This role involves researching and developing innovative on-device agentic AI systems for personalized services, building small language and multimodal models, and designing heterogeneous system architectures for intelligent assistance with deep user context understanding.
Good To Have:
- A strong publication record in major conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and COLM.
- Strong software development skills.
- Experience in software development for mobile or embedded environments.
- Experience with on-device AI and lightweight model development.
Must Have:
- Research and develop algorithms that understand user behaviors and multimodal contextual signals to enable intelligent, personalized, and context-aware assistance.
- Research and develop advanced multimodal and small language models tailored for on-device deployment, ensuring efficiency, low latency, and contextual relevance.
- Design and implement heterogeneous system architectures for on-device agentic AI, supporting intelligent memory, continual learning, and personalization.
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with modern machine learning frameworks, including PyTorch.
- Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), Language Models, Multimodal Language Models, or Multimodal Retrieval.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 2+ years of relevant work experience.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 1+ year of relevant work experience.
- PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
Perks:
- Qualcomm offers a world-class health benefit option providing world-class coverage to employees and their eligible dependents.
- Our programs are designed to help employees build and prepare for a financially secure future.
- Our self and family resources help you build emotional/mental strength and resilience, as well as define your purpose — in life and at work.
- Qualcomm’s wellbeing programs and resources offer support to help employees Live+Well and Work+Well, so they can unlock their full potential at home, at work, and everywhere between.
Job Posting Date
2025-10-17
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning Engineering
General Summary:
Company Introduction:
Qualcomm is a global leader in mobile technology innovation and is at the forefront of developing next-generation on-device AI technologies. The Qualcomm AI Research Korea conducts core AI research and development, creating intelligent agent technologies that will revolutionize the user experience. We look forward to receiving applications from passionate and talented individuals eager to shape the future of on-device AI technology with us.
Job Summary:
This role is responsible for researching and developing innovative on-device agentic AI systems that deliver personalized services. Agentic AI naturally follows a heterogeneous architecture, designed to handle tasks of varying complexity across different modalities. You will contribute to building on-device small language and multimodal models tailored for agentic AI, enabling intelligent assistance with a deep understanding of user context.
Key Responsibilities:
- Research and develop algorithms that understand user behaviors and multimodal contextual signals to enable intelligent, personalized, and context-aware assistance.
- Research and develop advanced multimodal and small language models tailored for on-device deployment, ensuring efficiency, low latency, and contextual relevance.
- Design and implement heterogeneous system architectures for on-device agentic AI, supporting intelligent memory, continual learning, and personalization.
Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent practical experience.
- Mandatory experience with modern machine learning frameworks, including PyTorch..
- Mandatory experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), Language Models, Multimodal Language Models, or Multimodal Retrieval.
- Experience with on-device AI and lightweight model development.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Effective communication and teamwork skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A strong publication record in major conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and COLM.
- Strong software development skills
- Experience in software development for mobile or embedded environments
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
- PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
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