AI Research Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 17 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Promising opportunity focusing on cutting-edge AI technology within a leading company with excellent benefits.
- Participate in innovative research projects
- Collaborate with top talent in the field
- Strong benefits and professional development options
- High expectations for technical qualifications
Pros
- Engage in next-gen AI research impacting industry standards
- Collaboration with top engineers in a leading tech firm
- Strong focus on career advancement and learning
Cons
- Expectations for high technical proficiency
- Fast-paced environment might lead to stress
- Potential remote work limitations
Who it's for
Mid to Senior • Hybrid possibilities
Good fit
- Mid to senior algorithm engineers
- Professionals interested in generative AI
- Candidates wanting to make a strong industry impact
Not recommended for
- Entry-level candidates without relevant experience
- Individuals seeking strictly non-research roles
- Those who prefer predictable job responsibilities
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Job Description
Job Posting Date
Additional Job Posting Location
Company:
Qualcomm Vietnam Company Limited, Hanoi Branch Office Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning EngineeringGeneral Summary:
Qualcomm AI Research is looking for world-class algorithm engineers in general domain machine learning, especially deep learning, generative AI, LLM, LVM. Come join a high-caliber team of engineers building advanced machine learning technology, and best-in-class solutions, to enable state-of-the-art networks to run on devices with limited power, memory, and computation. Members of our team enjoy the opportunity to participate in cutting edge research while simultaneously contributing technology that will be deployed worldwide in our industry-leading devices. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary talented team working on on-device generative AI optimization. Collaborate in a cross-functional environment spanning hardware, software and systems. See your design in action on industry-leading chips embedded in the next generation of smartphones, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and IOT devices.
The R&D work responsibility for this position focuses on the following
- Algorithms research and development for efficient generative AI, LLM, LVM, Multi-modality
- Efficient inference algorithms, e.g. batching, KV caching, efficient attentions, long context, speculative decoding
- Advanced quantization algorithms for complex generative models, e.g., gradient/non-gradient based optimization, equivalent/non-equivalent transformation, automatic mixed precision, hardware in loop
- Model compression, lossy or lossless, structural and neural search
- Optimization based learning and learning based optimization
- Generative AI system prototyping
- Apply solutions toward system innovations for model efficiency advancement on device as well as in the cloud
- Python, Pytorch programming.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 4+ 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 3+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 2+ 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 1+ year of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience. OR
- PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field. PHD's degree is preferred.
- 2+ years of experience with Machine Learning algorithms or systems engineering or related work experience.
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