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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

System Power & Performance Architecture Engineer Senior Engineer - Systems Engineering

Hardware Validation & TestingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • 3–6 years of experience in System Power & Performance Validation/Analysis in mobile, compute, IoT, automotive, or consumer electronics domains.
  • Good understanding of SoC power and performance concepts, workload behavior, and performance-per-watt analysis.
  • Hands-on experience analyzing CPU, GPU, AI/ML, and system-level workloads using industry-standard benchmarks and profiling tools.
  • Familiarity with SoC power states, low-power modes, sleep/idle states, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS), thermal management, and power management features.
  • Experience measuring and analyzing CPU, memory, infrastructure, and platform power consumption on a rail-by-rail basis.
  • Hands-on experience with power measurement and lab equipment such as NI DAQ, oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, current probes, and bench power supplies.
  • Basic understanding of PMICs, power rails, buck/low-dropout regulators, power delivery networks, and battery-powered systems.
  • Experience with power KPI collection, use-case power measurements, standby/idle power analysis, and low-power validation.
  • Exposure to post-silicon validation, board bring-up, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
  • Familiarity with JTAG, CPU profilers, ARM Developer Studio, or equivalent debug and profiling tools.
  • Understanding of ARM-based processor architecture, memory hierarchy, cache concepts, and system performance bottlenecks.
  • Working knowledge of Linux/Android environments, ADB, shell scripting, and Python-based automation.
  • Experience collecting and analyzing logs, traces, and performance data to identify power and performance issues.
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, or Computer Science and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience; or a Master's degree in one of these fields and 1+ year of related experience; or a PhD in one of these fields.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Electronics & Communication, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • Good analytical, debugging, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to work independently and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze data and recommend changes to SoC architecture, competitive analysis, and product positioning.
  • Perform power and performance validation, workload analysis, power measurements, and system-level debugging.
  • Work in a lab environment, analyze performance data, debug issues, and provide feedback to Qualcomm SoC Architecture.

Desired Qualifications

  • Exposure to CPU/GPU/AI workloads, Linux/Android environments, rail-level power analysis, Python automation, and post-silicon validation is highly desirable.

About the Company

Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

Qualcomm designs the Snapdragon processors and modems inside many Android phones, and it licenses its wireless patents to device makers around the world. It helped commercialize CDMA, the cellular technology behind 3G networks, and its patents cover core parts of the 4G and 5G standards that phones use to connect. The company does not run its own chip factories; contract foundries make its chips, which it sells to makers of phones, PCs, cars, and connected devices. Device makers also pay Qualcomm royalties for using its patented technology, which forms a second business alongside chip sales. Qualcomm was founded in 1985 and is based in San Diego, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Diego, CA
Founded
1985

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