Principal Engineer, Solutions Architect Lead – Industrial & Embedded IoT, Edge AI On‑Prem Appliance

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a global leader in connected intelligent edge, focusing on AI, edge computing and connectivity. They are seeking a Principal Systems Solutions Architect to define, develop, document, and own scalable blueprints for AI on-prem Appliance deployments across various industries.

Responsibilities:

• Own solution blueprints: Design, develop, document, and maintain reference designs and delivery playbooks that accelerate repeatable GenAI/Hybrid‑AI deployments on AI on-prem Appliance across priority verticals (e.g., industrial, retail, smart spaces, healthcare, public sector)
• Vertical customization: Partner with Product Management, Account Managers, Regional teams, Engineering and field teams to adapt blueprints to customer‑specific requirements/KPIs , data, infrastructure, privacy/security, and compliance constraints; drive solution acceptance and production hand‑off
• Be hands‑on: Proficient in SW skills; Design and develop reference designs, Build POCs and pilot systems; instrument, profile, and optimize models and pipelines end‑to‑end (latency, throughput, accuracy, cost, power/thermals, footprint)
• Multi‑model AI expertise: Apply and integrate LLMs, VLMs, VLAs, CV/CNN, and NLP stacks; select/quantize/prune/distill models; tune adapters; and integrate guardrails, retrieval, and evaluation frameworks
• Solutions focus: Deliver production‑grade patterns for video analytics, enterprise GenAI (RAG, document AI, code & task copilots), and multimodal agents that interact with enterprise systems and tools
• Hybrid AI architecture: Partition workloads across on‑device AI for a variety of edge devices, , on‑prem/edge boxes, and cloud AI; orchestrate data, models, and agents; design for offline/online modes, observability, and device management
• Agentic AI: Architect and implement agentic workflows (multi‑agent planning, tool use/function calling, memory, safety) using Qualcomm platforms and industry frameworks; define KPIs and evaluation loops
• Customer focus: Engage with customers from discovery to scale‑out; translate business objectives into measurable technical requirements; lead design reviews, roadmap alignment, and executive readouts
• Cross‑functional leadership: Work with CE, Product Management, Solutions, Platform SW, Performance, Security, and Research to leverage existing knowledge and infrastructure, land features in reference design releases, software roadmaps and deliver outcomes
• Innovation and Thought leadership: Create best‑practice guides, participate at leading industry events and workshops; stay abreast on the latest tech developments in the field, be aware of the competitive landscape, mentor engineers