Lead Engineer, Senior - Model Orchestration and Accuracy Tools

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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 Systems Engineer, you will research, design, develop, simulate, and/or validate systems-level software, hardware, architecture, algorithms, and solutions that enables the development of cutting-edge technology. Qualcomm Systems Engineers collaborate across functional teams to meet and exceed system-level requirements and standards.

The AI SW team at Qualcomm is focused on advancing state-of-the-art in Artificial Intelligence across various business segments, including Mobile, AR & VR Technology, IoT, and Auto ADAS. The AISW stack leverages Qualcomm chips' extensive heterogeneous computing capabilities, enabling the running of trained neural networks on devices without needing a cloud connection. This allows neural network models trained in various frameworks on Snapdragon platforms to run at blazing speeds while consuming minimal power. As a Senior Lead Engineer, you will see your work directly impact billions of devices worldwide.

Key Responsibilities:

• To design, development, and implementation of AI/ML solutions across multiple domains.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of AI/ML components within the broader framework

• Address and resolve issues related to AI models finetuning, quantization, compression and graph level optimizations, ensuring high performance and accuracy of AI models.

• Should possess good analytical skills - Consistently gather, integrate, and interpret information from different sources and conduct in depth analysis to find the root causes, provide recommendations, and effectively solve moderate to highly complex problems.

• Conduct research on industry trends and innovations in AI/ML to adopt best practices in solutions and deliverables.

• Develop and optimize quantization techniques for AI/ML models, ensuring efficient execution on Qualcomm hardware

• Manage project timelines, objectives, and goals, ensuring efficient use of resources across functional areas.

• Mentor and coach junior engineers, providing development experiences and networking opportunities.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer science or a related field and 5+ years of experience of Software engineering or related work experience

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Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer science or a related field and 4+ years of experience of Software engineering or related work experience:

• Experience with SW architecture and programming languages.

• Experience with tools and frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and others.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent development skills in Python / C++

• Proficient in Data structures and algorithms

• Hands on expertise in deep learning frameworks such as ONNX, PyTorch, etc

• In depth knowledge of state-of-the-art Computer Vision, NLP, LLM, LVM and LMM.

• Good understanding of Quantization (8-bit, 4-bit) and Calibration algorithms

• Good understanding of machine learning compiler techniques and graphs optimizations

• Excellent analytical, development, and debugging skills

• Good understanding of SW design patterns and design philosophies (SOLID principles, design patterns)

• Knowledge of machine learning runtimes like ONNX Runtime and execuTorch.

• Knowledge of AI model efficiency toolkit (AIMET), Snapdragon Neural processing engine is a plus.

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