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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

Principal Chipset Project Engineer - Thermal/Limits for Personal Computer

Thermal & Fluids EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSan Diego, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field and 8 or more years of Electrical, Computer, Software Engineering, or related work experience; or a master's degree in one of those fields and 7 or more years of related work experience; or a PhD in one of those fields and 6 or more years of related work experience.
  • At least 8 years of experience in one or more areas of semiconductor product development.
  • At least 5 years in a technical leadership role.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the thermal and limits strategy across the compute product portfolio from concept to commercialization.
  • Define system thermal budgets, methodologies, and tools to analyze and predict thermal behavior.
  • Model thermals and thermally constrained performance, influence designs and feature planning, define and tune system limits, and provide customer guidance on thermal targets and solutions.
  • Extract the highest thermally constrained system performance possible while working within fixed product constraints.
  • Work closely with domain- and IP-specific engineering leads, Project Engineers, Product Management, and Program Management, and engage with OEMs and ODMs.
  • Clearly communicate thermal goals, strategy, and status to executives and chipset teams in a highly matrixed environment, working with others without direct authority.
  • Guide design and architectural choices for chipsets, platforms, and software to maximize thermally constrained performance while meeting cost and size constraints.
  • Drive methodology and tool development to analyze and predict thermal behavior, assess performance impact, and assist thermal, power, and performance tuning.
  • Evaluate new thermal solutions.
  • Assess the impact of system component selection on thermals.
  • Influence system limits management feature sets and establish best practices for thermal management tuning.
  • Oversee resolution of thermal-related issues across the chipsets.
  • Interact frequently with customers, providing guidance on thermal targets and support for thermal debugging and tuning.
  • Influence and provide direction and guidance to leads and managers who may not be direct reports.
  • Make decisions that are critical in nature and highly impact program, product, or project success.
  • Convey highly complex or detailed information verbally and in writing, and negotiate and influence large groups or high-level constituents as needed.
  • Influence the formulation and achievement of long-term business plans and objectives.
  • Plan, problem-solve, and prioritize multi-step tasks that may be completed in different orders.

Desired Qualifications

  • A master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • At least 10 years of experience in one or more areas of semiconductor product development, such as system design, architecture, silicon design and validation, or software development and testing.
  • At least 8 years of experience in a thermal systems role, with a strong preference for PC thermal systems experience.
  • At least 4 years of experience working in a large matrixed organization.
  • At least 3 years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with executive leadership.
  • Prior experience in the PC industry.

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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