Company:Qualcomm Intl Inc., Mexico Branch Office
Job Area:Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Engineering
General Summary:
As a Senior Linux Systems Engineer within the HW Engineering Compute team, you will be responsible for the health, performance, and scalability of massive-scale compute environments that power Qualcomm's next-generation semiconductor design.
This will relate to management, configuration, and augmentation of the HPC servers leveraged to enable Qualcomm's Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads both on-premises and in public cloud.
Our Hybrid Cloud strategywill require maintenance and evolution of our current cloud footprint for "bursting " of workloads from on-premises data centers to major public cloud providers.
This includes optimizing for both cost and performance within the unique context of that environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide expert-level administration for enterprise Linux distributions including RHEL, Rocky Linux,Ubuntuand SLES.
- Unify infrastructure using configuration management to ensure configuration parity between on-prem and cloud environments.
- Develop script -based automation s to facilitate "passive" knowledge capture, transcribing triage sessions into structured workflows that can be applied to future cloud-scale issues.
- Architect and maintain Cloud Burstingsolutions that allow on-premises HPC schedulers ( Slurm /LSF) to dynamically scale into public cloud environments.
- Optimize cloud instance selection for specific EDA tool behaviors (e.g., memory-intensive synthesis vs. compute-heavy simulation), focusing on HPC-optimized instancesand specialized networking (e.g., AWS EFA).
- Implement cost-governance strategies for cloud compute to minimize waste without impacting engineering schedules.




- Utilize observability toolsto monitor workloads, identifying bottlenecks in on premises workloads or the cloud
- Understand key facilities within the Linux OS to improve EDA tool performance
- Understand how to interact with HPC job schedulers ( Slurm, PBS, or LSF) to ensure high throughput and fair resource allocation for massive EDA workloads.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Education:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related STEM field.
- Experience:3+ years of direct Linux system administration experience.
- Cloud:Experience deploying and managing Linux-based workloads in at least one major public cloud provider ( AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Preferred Qualifications
- EDA Experience:Familiarity with the compute requirements of EDA tools (e.g., Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor Graphics).
- Cloud HPC:Experience with cloud-native HPC tools like AWS Parallel Cluster, AzureCycleCloud, or cloud-based NetApp/ Lustre storage.
- IaCMastery:Advanced proficiency with Terraformfor multi-cloud infrastructure deployment.
- Certification:AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, Azure Administrator Associate, or equivalent GCP certification.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 3+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree.
OR
5+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor's degree.
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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