Company:Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Test Engineering

General Summary:
Role Overview

We are hiring a Rack Software Engineerto build and validate software for AI infrastructure racks. The role focuses on rack bring-up, Kubernetes orchestration, AI workload deployment, and system-level validationacross multi-node environments.

Key Responsibilities
- Rack Bring-up & Provisioning
- Automate network, storage, and bare-metal provisioning (e.g., MAAS)
- Bring up clusters and validate end-to-end rack readiness
- Kubernetes & Platform
- Deploy and manage services on K3S/Kubernetes using Helm
- Ensure HA, scheduling constraints, and zero-downtime upgrades
- AI Workloads
- Deploy and benchmark large models (vLLM, disaggregated serving)
- Analyze latency, throughput, and scaling behavior
- Accelerator Integration
- Validate AI accelerator (AI100/AI200) lifecycle, health, and allocation
- Debug performance and hardware-software interaction issues
- Observability & Debugging
- Work on telemetry (in-band + OOB), metrics,



and monitoring
- Debug system, performance, and infra-level issues
- Automation & Reliability
- Build automation for testing, deployment, and operations
- Improve system stability and reliability
- Multi-Tenancy & Security
- Implement RBAC, authentication (LDAP/OIDC), and tenant isolation

Requirements:
- 5-12+ years in systems / infrastructure software
- Strong in:
- Kubernetes, Linux, networking
- Python / Go / scripting
- Distributed systems & debugging

Preferred
- Experience in AI/ML infra or inference systems
- Familiarity with MAAS, Helm, Ansible, Prometheus/Grafana
- Exposure to accelerators (GPU / AI ASICs)

What We Look For
- Solid debugging skills across HW-SW stack
- Experience in bring-up and scaling of complex systems
- Ownership mindset for end-to-end stability

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ year

📌 Staff Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Qualcomm
📍 Chennai