Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Sr Staff Engineer for Verification, CI/CD Infrastructure & Embedded Hardware. This role involves designing and scaling CI/CD infrastructure and verification systems to validate Qualcomm's AI Software stack, requiring deep technical expertise and hands-on involvement in building automated pipelines and integrating embedded hardware.
Responsibilities
- Architect and scale large-distributed CI/CD systems with high throughput and low flakiness
- Design automated workflows: build, package, deploy, flash, run, log-collection, triage, dashboarding
- Develop scheduling/orchestration layers for thousands of HW-based regression tests
- Implement monitoring, telemetry, and automated mitigation for CI stability
- Develop embedded target test frameworks across DSP/NPU
- Automate flashing, provisioning, power/reset, and new chipset bring-up
- Design hardware-in-loop validation for stability, thermal, long-run correctness, and performance
- Own coverage strategy for throughput, correctness, memory behavior, and runtime scheduling
- Develop automated triage signals and failure classification systems
- Eliminate flakiness and nondeterminism in HW test environments
- Maintain CI/verification pipelines for internal and open-source projects
- Enforce PR gating, reproducible builds, artifact management, and API correctness
- Influence DevOps, firmware, and platform teams using data-driven insights
- Lead technical deep-dives on CI and embedded HW failures
- Align infrastructure capabilities with program milestones and customer requirements
- Produce high-quality documentation for CI architecture, HW frameworks, and best practices
- Drive continuous improvement and streamline reproducible HW testing workflows
Skills
- 10+ years in CI/CD engineering, verification, embedded systems, or runtime/toolchain development
- Expertise designing/scaling CI/CD (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)
- Deep experience integrating embedded hardware into automated pipelines
- Background in firmware flashing, device provisioning, power/reset automation, and board-farm debugging
- Strong scripting/programming in Python, Bash, C/C++
- Experience maintaining open-source verification pipelines
- Strong debugging across runtime/driver/inference layers
- Ability to influence cross-functional engineering teams
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 6+ 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 5+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience OR PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience
- Familiarity with Qualcomm AI stack (QNN, QAIRT, SNPE)
- Experience with heterogeneous compute validation (DSP/GPU/CPU/NPU)
- Background in silicon bring-up or hardware-in-loop systems
- Experience with large device-farm operation and automation
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants
- Highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play
- Employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus
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