Qualcomm Senior Engineer Machine Learning Engineering 

Canada, Ontario, Markham 

37146187

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning Engineering

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.

Skills / Experience Required:

• Solid hands-on skills and experience on performance optimization

• Proficient programming skills in C/C++ and algorithm development

• Object oriented analysis and design

• Experience with Linux/Android development environment and tools

• Familiar with embedded/computer hardware architecture

• Machine learning knowledge: CNN/RNN/Transformer architecture, ML frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

• 5+ years of experience with Machine Learning frameworks (e.g., Tensor Flow, Caffe, Caffe 2, Pytorch, Keras).

• 5+ years of experience in embedded system development and optimization with application to a specific problem domain in ML (e.g., NLP, multi-media).

• 5+ years of experience with one or more programming language suitable for machine learning (e.g. C, C++, Python)

• 5+ years of experience using statistics and probability (e.g., conditional probability, Bayes rule).

• 3+ years experience working in a large matrixed organization.

• 2+ years of experience with low level interactions between operating systems (e.g., Linux, Android, QNX) and Hardware.

• 1+ year in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports (only applies to positions with direct reports).

• 1+ year of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director and above).

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leverages advanced Machine Learning knowledge to extend training or runtime frameworks or model efficiency software tools with new features and optimizations.

• Models, architects, and develops advanced machine learning hardware (co-designed with machine learning software) for inference or training solutions.

• Develops optimized software to enable AI models deployed on hardware (e.g., machine learning kernels, compiler tools, or model efficiency tools, etc.) to allow specific hardware features; collaborates with hardware teams for joint design and development.

• Develops and applies machine learning techniques into products and/or AI solutions to enable customers to do the same.

• Develops, adapts, or prototypes novel machine learning solutions aligned with and motivated by proposals or roadmaps for complex products and working features.

• Oversees and conducts experiments to train and evaluate machine learning models and/or software.

Level of Responsibility:

• Works independently with minimal supervision.

• Provides supervision/guidance to other team members.

• Decision-making is significant in nature and affects work beyond immediate work group.

• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey complex information. May require negotiation, influence, tact, etc.

• Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to make key decisions).

• Tasks do not have defined steps; planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.