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General Summary:
We’re hiring a seasoned engineering leader to run software development for our enterprise AI organization. You’ll lead a global team building full‑stack AI solutions on top of our enterprise AI platform—everything from production-grade chatbots, MCP servers, and workflow engines to agentic AI and automations that drive measurable business outcomes. This role owns global software delivery end‑to‑end: portfolio planning, architecture, execution, quality, and operations at scale. You’ll partner closely across product, data, security, infra/cloud, and business teams to deliver secure, reliable, and compliant AI products used across the enterprise.
You combine deep engineering leadership with hands-on technical judgment across Python, Rust, TypeScript, React/React Native, and modern cloud-native delivery (Docker, Kubernetes). You’re comfortable running multiple concurrent projects, guiding frameworks and patterns, raising the engineering bar, and creating clarity in a fast-moving, multi-stakeholder environment.
This role requires full-time onsite work in San Diego, CA (5 days per week).
Key Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.Preferred Qualifications:
• Master's Degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field.
• 15+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 4+ years of supervisory experience.
• 4+ years of experience with Database Management Software.
• 4+ years of experience with API.
• 3+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with executive leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above).
• 3+ years of working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
• Leverages expert Software knowledge and experience to implement and drive the design, development, creation, modification, and validation of embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs.
• Analyzes user needs, software requirements, and time and cost constraints to direct and drive the design and customization of highly sophisticated software with maximum operational efficiency.
• Directs the resolution of design, coding, and other technical issues by presenting end-to-end solutions.
• Influences and communicates guidelines for design, coding, and testing efforts and ensures projects are completed to specifications and schedules.
• Directs, influences, and drives code reviews, regression tests, and the triage of issues to ensure the quality of code.
• Collaborates with high-level representatives from other functions (e.g., testing group, product group, customers) to plan functionality of end-to-end systems.
• Sets and communicates the strategic direction for the discipline across the organization; identifies and promotes a unifying vision throughout the organization with associated long-term goals.
• Communicates guidelines across teams for writing detailed technical documentation for Software projects; writes and reviews technical documentation for highly complex projects.
Level of Responsibility:
• Provides supervision to direct reports.
• Decision-making is critical in nature and highly impacts program, product, or project success.
• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey highly complex and/or detailed information. May require strong negotiation and influence with large groups or high-level constituents.
• Develops and administers budgets, schedules, and performance standards for functional area within the prescribed budgetary objectives of the department.
• Has a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is making or directly making key decisions that will have substantial impact over the organization).
• Tasks often require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; extensive planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$207,600.00 - $311,400.00The 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.
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