Principal/Sr Staff Engineer – AI Infrastructure Management (AIMS), UI, Orchestration & Lifecycle Management - Riyadh, KSA
Qualcomm
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Riyadh
Contract type: Full time
Company
Qualcomm Middle East Information Technology Company LLC
Job Area
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
General Summary
About Us
Qualcomm is growing its presence in Riyadh and is hiring Data Centre Engineers to support our expanding infrastructure across the region. As Saudi Arabia accelerates its digital transformation under Vision 2030, Qualcomm is investing in world‑class computing and data centre capabilities to power AI, cloud, and advanced connectivity at scale. This is a unique opportunity to work in a fast‑growing technology hub, supporting critical environments and helping shape the future of data centre operations in the Kingdom and beyond.
Qualcomm is seeking a Principal/Sr Staff Engineer to play a key technical leadership role in the development of the AI Infrastructure Management Suite (AIMS), the software platform used to provision, operate, and manage large-scale AI data center deployments.
This role focuses on hands-on technical ownership across UI, orchestration, and lifecycle management components of AIMS. The candidate Engineer will design, implement, and evolve critical parts of the system while collaborating closely with product leads, architects, and cross-functional teams to deliver production-grade AI infrastructure software at rack and fleet scale.
Key Responsibilities
Apart from working with great people, we offer the below:
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software 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.
To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
Qualcomm Middle East Information Technology Company LLC
Job Area
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
General Summary
About Us
Qualcomm is growing its presence in Riyadh and is hiring Data Centre Engineers to support our expanding infrastructure across the region. As Saudi Arabia accelerates its digital transformation under Vision 2030, Qualcomm is investing in world‑class computing and data centre capabilities to power AI, cloud, and advanced connectivity at scale. This is a unique opportunity to work in a fast‑growing technology hub, supporting critical environments and helping shape the future of data centre operations in the Kingdom and beyond.
Qualcomm is seeking a Principal/Sr Staff Engineer to play a key technical leadership role in the development of the AI Infrastructure Management Suite (AIMS), the software platform used to provision, operate, and manage large-scale AI data center deployments.
This role focuses on hands-on technical ownership across UI, orchestration, and lifecycle management components of AIMS. The candidate Engineer will design, implement, and evolve critical parts of the system while collaborating closely with product leads, architects, and cross-functional teams to deliver production-grade AI infrastructure software at rack and fleet scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and own major components of AIMS spanning operator-facing UI, orchestration services, and lifecycle management workflows.
- Drive technical execution for Day-0 through Day-2 operations including provisioning, configuration, upgrades, expansion, and decommissioning of AI infrastructure.
- Build reliable, observable, and scalable control-plane services that manage racks, clusters, and fleets of AI systems.
- Collaborate with UI, platform, firmware, and hardware teams to ensure cohesive system behavior from silicon to software.
- Participate actively in design reviews, code reviews, debugging, and performance analysis of distributed systems.
- Act as a technical mentor for senior and staff engineers, raising the overall engineering bar through examples and guidance.
- Develop and maintain operator-facing web applications and dashboards using Node.js.
- Implement UI workflows for monitoring, inventory, telemetry visualization, and lifecycle operations.
- Ensure UI components are tightly aligned with backend APIs, state models, and real-world operational workflows.
- Design and implement orchestration services responsible for resource abstraction, scheduling, and workload lifecycle management for AI workloads.
- Build and operate control-plane services deployed on Kubernetes.
- Ensure orchestration logic integrates cleanly with underlying rack and node management systems.
- Implement lifecycle automation using Terraform and Ansible for provisioning, configuration, and updates.
- Design safe rollout, upgrade, rollback, and recovery mechanisms suitable for fleet-scale deployments.
- Develop Python-based automation and services to support lifecycle workflows and operational tooling.
- Strong experience with Node.js for backend and UI-driven infrastructure systems.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code and environment management.
- Proficiency with Ansible for configuration management and automation.
- Solid knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker for deploying and operating distributed systems.
- Strong Python skills for orchestration services, tooling, and automation.
- Experience building or operating large-scale infrastructure or platform software in production environments.
- Experience with managing large software systems (Python, C++)
- Core AIMS components are reliable, scalable, and operable in real customer and internal data center deployments.
- Operators can confidently manage AI infrastructure through intuitive UIs and automated lifecycle workflows.
- The Principal Engineer is recognized as a go-to technical owner for critical AIMS functionality.
Apart from working with great people, we offer the below:
- Salary including housing & transport allowance
- Stock (RSU's) and performance related bonus
- 16 weeks fully paid Maternity Leave
- 6 weeks fully paid Paternity Leave
- Employee stock purchase scheme
- Child Education Allowance
- Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
- Life and Medical Insurance
- Live+ Well Reimbursement for health and recreational membership fees
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- 4+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
- References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.
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.
To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
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