GPU HW Research Engineer (San Diego/Boxborough)

About the role

The Qualcomm GPU Research Team seeks innovative GPU architects to advance AI, ML, and GPGPU computing. This role involves designing next-gen GPU architectures for various platforms, collaborating with software and hardware teams, and contributing to open-source projects.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other GPU architects to design new hardware features and enhance existing GPU architectures for accelerating GPGPU, ML, and AI workloads.
• Develop architectural solutions for diverse platforms, including mobile, Windows on Snapdragon (WoS), and data center GPUs.
• Work closely with software teams, hardware design teams, standardization bodies, and internal/external partners to deliver cutting-edge solutions.
• Influence the evolution of GPU capabilities for advanced use cases such as large language models (LLMs) and large vision models (LVMs).

Requirements

• Strong understanding of GPU architectures, programming models, and application domains.
• Proficiency with APIs such as OpenCL, CUDA, Vulkan, or Direct3D 12.
• Experience with hardware design flow and basic knowledge of Verilog (or VHDL).
• Exposure to hardware simulation/emulation tools and waveform analysis.
• Solid programming skills in C/C++.
• Familiarity with Python is a strong plus.

Preferred Skills

• Hands-on experience in development, debugging, and optimization of CUDA and OpenCL kernels, as well as GPU compute shaders.
• Deep understanding of quantization techniques and data types for large language models (LLMs) and large vision models (LVMs).
• Experience designing GPU hardware features for ML/AI acceleration.
• Experience with open-source projects such as llama.cpp, vLLM, or similar frameworks is a big plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Benefits

Qualcomm offers a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). Our highly competitive benefits package supports your success at work, at home, and at play.

Pay

$161,800.00 - $242,600.00