About the job
Qualcomm AI Research is looking for talented AI software engineers to enable AI technologies on edge devices. This is your opportunity to join a high-caliber team of engineers, building best-in-class GenAI solutions with model optimization tools to deploy state-of-the-art models to edge devices with optimal power, memory, and computation use. In this role, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team that has continually enabled first-of-its-kind and competitive generative AI models on Qualcomm AI accelerator engines, such as the world’s first on device text-to-image generation with stable diffusion, and text-to-text with 7B large language model on device. You will collaborate in a cross-functional environment spanning hardware, software and systems and see your design in action on industry-leading chips embedded in the next generation of intelligent devices, such as smartphones, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and IOT devices.
Responsibilities
- Development of end-to-end embedded AI software to train and finetune neural network models on Qualcomm leading edge hardware with optimal resources.
- Design and enhance the implementation of ML/AI SW stack, kernels, and runtime software to improve performance and power efficiency.
- Collaborating with our AI Processor Hardware team to implement high-quality solutions for new ML operators/layers that optimally utilize new capabilities in next-gen AI processors.
- Development of debugging/profiling tools and user-friendly SDKs for customers to foster rapid deployment of their new use cases.
Qualifications
Minimum
• 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. OR
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. OR
PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
Preferred
- At least 3 years of work experience in a relevant field.
- Excellent programming capabilities with C/C++ and Python.
- Knowledge of deep learning and ML frameworks ( i.e. PyTorch ).
- Strong software design, development, and debugging skills.
- Knowledge of Android programming is plus.
- Optimization of algebraic operations in algorithms for HW cores is a plus.
- Knowledge in neural network model training is a big plus.
- Knowledge in neural network model quantization is a big plus.
- Experience with Qualcomm QNN SDK is a big plus.