Industrial Engineer

Responsibilities

• Maintain an audit-ready inventory of lab infrastructure attributes, including power, cooling, and key constraints.
• Perform site walks and technical due diligence to validate capacity and identify potential risks or upgrade needs.
• Develop repeatable infrastructure profiles and load templates to enable consistent planning and estimates.
• Evaluate candidate spaces through trade studies (reuse, upgrade, or new build) and present recommendations to leadership.
• Model demand versus capacity to identify bottlenecks and translate forecasted demand into roadmap triggers.
• Design and optimize engineering lab layouts, workflows, and equipment flows to improve productivity and safety.
• Apply AI/ML techniques to lab operations data for predictive modeling, demand forecasting, and space planning.
• Lead process improvement initiatives using Lean or Six Sigma methodologies to enhance lab performance and scalability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical, or Facilities Engineering (or equivalent practical experience).
• 5+ years of relevant experience in lab, facilities, critical environments, or infrastructure planning.
• Working knowledge of building electrical distribution and cooling concepts, such as heat-load estimation and airflow constraints.
• Experience performing site assessments and translating technical findings into feasibility recommendations.
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel-based modeling and structured datasets.
• Excellent communication skills for cross-functional stakeholder engagement and executive-level reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting R&D or specialty labs, such as high-density compute environments.
• Proficiency with reporting and analytics tools like Power BI or querying languages like SQL; Python experience is a plus.
• Experience applying AI/ML (including generative AI) for data quality, forecasting, or decision-support automation.
• Familiarity with layout tools such as AutoCAD or Visio.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

About the Company

Qualcomm is a global leader in wireless technology, developing the innovations that power the world's most advanced connected devices. We foster a supportive, inclusive culture where the brightest minds work together to solve the most complex challenges in engineering and technology.