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Sr Staff/Principal DevOps Engineer, Machine Learning Infrastructure and Performance
@ Qualcomm Canada ULC
Markham, Ontario
Overview
Qualcomm Canada ULC is hiring a Senior Staff or Principal DevOps Engineer for its ML Systems Team to run and improve machine learning infrastructure and performance. The work covers self-hosted Linux GitHub runners, CI/CD pipelines, Docker environments, model artifact management and performance-data services. The posting requires 6 to 8 years of experience depending on education.
Responsibilities:
- Operate and improve the Linux self-hosted GitHub runner fleet
- Build reliable GitHub Actions pipelines and Docker environments
- Own Python task orchestration infrastructure for hardware measurements
- Steward performance-data ingestion, analysis and regression reporting
- Plan scaling of workloads, caches and artifacts
Requirements summary:
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant work, or Master's and 7+, or PhD and 6+
- Depth in Linux, CI/CD, Docker and Python
- Familiarity with pytest, ONNX and PyTorch
- Experience with REST APIs, FastAPI and PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with batch scheduling or cloud infrastructure
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-06
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-07
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 8+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Hospital or clinic |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
| Fields of study | Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems |
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Qualcomm Canada ULC
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
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Company:
Qualcomm Canada ULCJob Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning EngineeringGeneral Summary:
Today, more intelligence is moving to end devices, and mobile is becoming the pervasive AI platform. Building on the smartphone foundation and the scale of mobile, Qualcomm envisions making AI ubiquitous—expanding beyond mobile and powering other end devices, machines, vehicles, and things.
We are inventing, developing, and commercializing power-efficient on-device AI, edge cloud AI, and 5G to make this a reality. New Position
Purpose:
As a member of Qualcomm’s ML Systems Team, you will:
- Maintain local server racks and on-site devices
- Make infrastructure and processes robust, reliable, and efficient
- Identify and remedy items impacting productivity of the development team.
Responsibilities:
- Operate and improve the Linux self-hosted GitHub runner fleet: capacity, scheduling, storage, monitoring, recovery, access, and incident response.
- Build reliable GitHub Actions pipelines and reproducible Docker environments for builds, tests, model benchmarks, artifacts, and releases. Maintain the Git LFS-backed model zoo and its shared caches.
- Own and innovate on the Python task/workflow orchestration infrastructure (Prefect-esque) to make hardware measurements traceable, repeatable, and actionable.
- Steward performance-data ingestion and analysis, including the FastAPI/PostgreSQL-backed service and its clients; improve pytest integration, regression detection, reporting, triage, and release promotion.
- Plan the next scale step: isolate workloads, improve cache and artifact lifecycle, and evaluate elastic/cloud or batch execution where it fits scarce devices and large models.
- Turn project-specific tooling into supported, reusable platform components for other teams.
Required:
Depth in:
- Linux
- CI/CD
- Docker
- Python
The ideal candidate will be familiar with:
- Linux infrastructure: Self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, systemd, remote filesystems (NFS), and resource monitoring.
- CI/CD and containers: GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, Docker, and release automation. Familiarity with Jenkins is a plus.
- Model and artifact management: Git LFS, shared caches, and large-model storage (ONNX models).
- Python testing: pytest, pytest-xdist, integration tests, and performance reporting (with run-to-run variation).
- AI performance tooling: ONNX, PyTorch, QAIRT SDK is a plus, Android device execution and profiling is a plus (adb).
- Performance data: REST APIs, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL, or similar libraries/frameworks.
- Future scaling: batch scheduling (ex. IBM Spectrum LSF) or cloud infrastructure for horizontally scaling automation.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 8+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.OR
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 7+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
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