AI/ML performance engineer

Company:Qualcomm India Private Limited
Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering

General Summary:

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.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

Job Title: AI/ML performance engineerExperience: 1-2 years

Role overview

We are seeking a AI/ML Performance Engineer to drive performance analysis, optimization, and validation of AI workloads across Neural Processing Units (NPU),and GPUs in complex SoC platforms with a robust background in the field of deep learning (DL) to validate the performance of state-of-the-art low-level perception (LLP) as well as end-to-end AD models. The role focuses on AI/ML inference performance, latency, throughput, power efficiency, and system‑level integration, working closely with architecture, compiler, runtime, and framework teams. This position requires deep understanding of AI accelerator micro‑architecture, ML models, and end‑to‑end software stacks spanning drivers, runtimes, compilers, and frameworks.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills are required, and the candidate must be able to work effectively with various horizontal AI teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 1+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Skills:

• Good at software development with exposure to AI coding tools and excellent analytical, development, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in embedded software (Linux,Android,RTOS)
• Experience in system performance domain with focus on neural accelerators and GPU
• Knowledge on CPU, NPU,GPU, NOC , DDR architecture
• Strong understanding of Machine Learning fundamentals
• Knowledge in neural network quantization, compression, pruning algorithms, deep learning kernel/compiler optimization
• Strong communication skills

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Analyze and optimize AI/ML workload performance on NSP, NPU, and GPU across single and multi‑accelerator systems.

 Identify bottlenecks across compute, memory bandwidth/latency, NoC, DMA, SMMU, and scheduling.

 Drive optimizations for latency‑critical inference, high‑throughput pipelines, and concurrent multi‑VM execution.

 Perform roofline, utilization, and memory access pattern analysis using hardware counters.

 Benchmark and optimize CNNs, Transformers, VLMs, and diffusion models for real‑world and customer use cases.

Optimize model execution using operator fusion, graph partitioning, quantization, mixed precision, tiling, and batching.

Collaborate with system software teams on drivers, runtimes, memory allocation, power, thermal, and QoS constraints.

Analyze performance under concurrent, virtualized, and safety‑critical or real‑time environments.

 Build and use benchmarks, micro‑benchmarks, profilers, and regression tools to derive actionable insights.

Partner with architecture, compiler, SDK, and AI framework teams to influence HW/SW design and resolve performance escalations.

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