Company :Qualcomm India Private Limited

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

General Summary : Role Overview

We are hiring a Rack Software Engineer to build and validate software for AI infrastructure racks. The role focuses on rack bring-up, Kubernetes orchestration, AI workload deployment, and system-level validation across 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





- Solid 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

- Strong 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+ years of Systems Test Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Test Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Test Engineering or related work experience.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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