Senior/Staff Software Engineer - LLM Inference Systems & Open-Source
QUALCOMM
Santa Clara, CA · $162k–$243k a year · Posted October 22, 2026
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This listing pays about $202,500 a year. Across 242 open senior listings that state pay, the middle half runs $183,000 to $250,000 and the median is $222,000. That is inside the middle half of those listings, 9% below the median.
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About the job
...Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group Machine Learning Engineering General Summary... ...help build and advance the software ecosystem for large-scale LLM inference on Qualcomm platforms. In this role, you will work...