Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning Engineering
General Summary:The Sr Staff Engineer Engineer, Verification (CI/CD & Embedded HW) is a senior individual contributor responsible for designing, scaling, and hardening CI/CD infrastructure and verification systems that validate Qualcomm's AI Software stack-including QNN HTP, QAIRT, toolchains, kernels, and embedded runtime components. This role is deeply technical and hands-on: you will build large-scale automated pipelines, integrate embedded hardware (DSP, NPU) test execution, drive target-based regression infrastructure, and ensure efficient, reliable, and high-signal validation at scale.
You can apply past experience managing large CI/CD pipelines to quickly target issues that arise to a software and/or hardware level.
New PositionKey Responsibilities (IC-Focused):CI/CD Infrastructure Architecture & Scaling- 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.
Embedded Hardware Validation & Automation- 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.
Test Strategy, Coverage Expansion & Signal Improvement- 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.
Open-Source & Internal Pipeline Ownership- Maintain CI/verification pipelines for internal and open-source projects.
- Enforce PR gating, reproducible builds, artifact management, and API correctness.
Cross-Functional Influence- 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.
Documentation & Process Engineering- Produce high-quality documentation for CI architecture, HW frameworks, and best practices.
- Drive continuous improvement and streamline reproducible HW testing workflows.
Required Qualifications- 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.
Preferred Qualifications- 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.
Success Indicators- Highly stable, scalable CI/CD pipelines with reduced failures/flakiness.
- Faster regression turnaround and increased throughput.
- Strong embedded target coverage with reproducible signals.
- Positive feedback from global engineering teams.
Minimum Qualifications:• 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.
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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.
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PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
