Job Description
Company: QT Technologies Ireland Limited
Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group, ASICS Engineering
General Summary
About The Role
Qualcomm offers flexible work options tailored to our employee’s needs. These include a combination of work from home and working in our brand new, state of the art office in Penrose Dock, Cork.
Well-being and life balance are fundamental to Qualcomm as an employer. We recognise and understand that employees have missed spending quality time with loved ones and extended family.
As such, Cork Qualcomm policy allows our employees to blend short-term remote working with annual leave.
We are looking for an Automation and DevOps oriented software engineer to help deliver cutting edge ML technology. Our team manages the cross-site infrastructure and tools that enable Qualcomm's ML teams to deliver products to customers.
We manage a server farm of embedded phone-like devices and the infrastructure (CI/CD, tooling, automation) which enable software developers to run workloads on these devices at large scales (400,000+ tasks per day).
Our team focuses on maintaining the physical server farm and developing and enhancing the automation around it.
Responsibilities will include
- Develop Python automation tooling and infrastructure in support of the ML projects.
- Sysadmin of the device farm and x86 hosts (Linux) which communicate with the devices, in a server lab setting.
- Supports local ML teams while coordinating cross-site (North America) infrastructure efforts.
- Coordinates with local IT team and project to ensure infrastructure redundancy and uptime in support of the project development team.
- Plan, project, coordinate, and deliver forward looking server farm upgrades as new ML hardware cycles are taped out.
Ideal candidates will demonstrate the following:
- Proven experience as an DevOps Engineer or similar role
- Experience with industry standard CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub CI).
- Excellent Python programming and automated testing
- Sysadmin experience within a server farm setting (physical machine management)
- Advanced-level skills in Linux system administration, Docker, Git, Jenkins, NFS
- Experience with RabbitMQ, SQL, data visualization tools
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex system issues.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively within a cross-functional team spanning several time zones
We would also love to see:
- Python software development of automation infrastructure
- Linux system administration
- Docker, Git, Jenkins, NFS, GitHub CI, Splunk, SQL
- Server sysadmin in support of local teams
Where you will be working
Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.
There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.
A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.
Equal Opportunities
We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.
What's On Offer
- Salary, stock and performance related bonus
- Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Employee stock purchase scheme
- Matching pension scheme
- Education Assistance
- Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
- Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
- Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being
- Bicycle purchase scheme
- Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
- OR
- Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
- OR
- PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.
*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.
Although this role has some expected minor physical activity, this should not deter otherwise qualified applicants from applying. If you are an individual with a physical or mental disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, please call Qualcomm’s toll-free number found for assistance. Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, to support individuals with disabilities as part of our ongoing efforts to create an accessible workplace.
Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.
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.
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