Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Nuvia

Nuvia

Software Engineering
San Diego, CA, USA
USD 140,800-211,200 / year + Equity
Posted on Feb 24, 2026


Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning Engineering

General Summary:

**THIS IS ONSITE ROLE AT OUR HQ in SAN DIEGO**

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 Machine Learning Engineer, you will create and implement machine learning techniques, frameworks, and tools that enable the efficient utilization of state-of-the-art machine learning solutions over a broad set of technology verticals or designs.

In this position you will be responsible for assisting with the software design and development of the Qualcomm AI Stack, SDKs and associated tools, targeting Snapdragon platforms. You will have the opportunity to show your passion for software design and development with your analytical, design, programming, and debugging skills.

All Qualcomm employees are expected to actively support diversity in their teams, and in the Company.

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.
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.

Responsibilities

  • Software development of the AI orchestration framework, engine, and tools to develop agentic workflows and execution of the latest Neural Networks on Snapdragon chips.
  • Validate the performance and accuracy of your software through detailed analysis and test of the use cases.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 3+ years software development experience using C/C++ and/or Python
  • Strong software development skills (e.g. data structure and algorithm design, object oriented or other software design paradigm knowledge, software debugging and testing, etc.)
  • Strong communication skills (verbal, presentation, written)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in developing embedded applications with low level interactions between operating systems (e.g., Linux, Android, Windows, QNX) and Hardware.
  • Experience using/integrating Qualcomm AI Stack products (e.g. QNN, SNPE, QAIRT)
  • Experience with LLM, LVM, LMM models, and other NN architectures.
  • Experience with Machine Learning frameworks (e.g., Tensor Flow, Pytorch, ONNX).
  • Software development experience with Java
  • Ability to collaborate across a globally diverse team and multiple interests

Education Requirements

  • Required: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
  • Preferred: Bachelor's Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$140,800.00 - $211,200.00

The 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.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.