Company:Qualcomm Intl Inc., Mexico Branch Office
Job Area:Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Engineering
General Summary:
Position Summary
Qualcomm's Grid Solution team is seeking a Senior HPC Scheduler Operations Engineer to operate, scale, and continuously optimize large-scale job scheduling infrastructure supporting Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and compute-intensive engineering workloads. This role is embedded within the Engineering IT Hardware Infrastructure — EDA Compute organization and requires deep expertise in IBM Spectrum LSF as the primary scheduler, with a working knowledge of Slurm as an emerging priority. The idóneo candidate brings strong Linux systems administration skills, a reliability engineering mindset, and the ability to translate complex scheduler behavior into actionable insights for engineering and management stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Scheduler Operations & Optimization
- Manage, scale, and optimize IBM Spectrum LSF job scheduling systems for EDA and HPC compute-intensive workloads across multi-site environments.




- Administer scheduler configuration including queue policies, resource limits, fairshare, job arrays, and preemption strategies.
- Analyze scheduler and infrastructure performance data to identify bottlenecks and improve utilization, throughput, and job turnaround time.
- Perform capacity planning and workload characterization to support SKU-level packing models and tiered job scheduling strategies.
- Implement and maintain scheduler tuning parameters to minimize dispatch latency and maximize grid efficiency under high-saturation conditions.

Reliability & Incident Management
- Troubleshoot and resolve service-impacting issues across scheduler, OS, and workload layers with minimal time-to-resolution.
- Define and track SLOs for service performance and reliability; partner with customer teams to set and communicate realistic expectations.
- Implement automation and process improvements to r

📌 Senior HPC Scheduler Operations Engineer (Ciudad de México)
🏢 Qualcomm
📍 Ciudad de México