Sr Staff/Principal DevOps Engineer, Machine Learning Infrastructure and Performance
Core
Build and maintain robust, reliable, and efficient ML infrastructure for on-device AI, edge cloud AI, and 5G development at Qualcomm.
Role type
Sr Staff/Principal DevOps Engineer (ML Infrastructure)
Builds
Linux self-hosted GitHub runner fleet, GitHub Actions pipelines, Docker environments, Git LFS-backed model zoo, Python workflow orchestration, and performance data ingestion services.
Domain
Mobile AI, Edge Cloud, 5G, ML Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Linux, CI/CD, Docker, Python
Preferred skills
systemd, remote filesystems (NFS), resource monitoring, Jenkins, Git LFS, ONNX, PyTorch, QAIRT SDK, Android profiling (adb), REST APIs, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, batch scheduling (IBM Spectrum LSF), cloud infrastructure
Technologies
Linux, GitHub Actions, Docker, Git LFS, Python, Prefect, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, ONNX, PyTorch, pytest, IBM Spectrum LSF
Responsibilities
Operate and improve Linux self-hosted GitHub runner fleet; Build reliable GitHub Actions pipelines and reproducible Docker environments; Own and innovate on Python task/workflow orchestration infrastructure; Steward performance-data ingestion and analysis services; Plan next scale steps for workload isolation and elastic/cloud execution; Turn project-specific tooling into reusable platform components.
Seniority
Sr Staff/Principal, hands-on IC
