Senior Engineer, Backend Gen Al
Qualcomm
Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning EngineeringGeneral Summary:
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Backend Engineer to join our backend team. You will help design and implement the scalable backend systems that power our AI-driven Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) platform. In this role, you will contribute to designing and building agents that leverage large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) to enable advanced user interaction, video retrieval, video analysis, incident reporting, and other intelligent workflows.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop robust and scalable LLM/VLM-based agent systems, considering aspects like planning, tool use, memory, and user interaction flows.
- Integrate LLMs and backend services to enhance the agent’s capabilities.
- Develop and execute tests to ensure the agent’s reliability and performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including AI, DevOps, and Product, to build and deploy agents.
- Implement tools for logging, tracing, and debugging agent behavior in production.
- Research and apply the latest LLM and agent technologies.
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Strong backend development skills in Go, Java, Python, or Node.js.
- Understanding of LLM/VLM principles.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, structured prompting, and chaining techniques.
- Experience integrating LLMs via APIs.
- Proficient with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
- Awareness of responsible AI practices and potential challenges.
- Proficiency in Go (Golang).
- Experience with LLM agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen).
- Experience with AI-powered platforms, especially in computer vision or LLM agents.
- Familiarity with vector databases and embedding-based retrieval pipelines.
- Knowledge of secure model integration, access controls, and data privacy in enterprise environments
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$145,300.00 - $217,900.00The 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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