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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

System Performance Engineer – Senior Staff - PPT Systems Engineering

Hardware Validation & TestingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSan Diego, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in Computer Engineering.
  • At least 10 years of practical post-silicon experience in power and performance analysis of complex systems-on-chip.
  • At least 3 years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership at Senior Director, Vice President, or higher levels.
  • Strong programming and scripting skills in Python and C/C++.
  • Knowledge of state-of-the-art workloads, including artificial intelligence and large language models.
  • Understanding of memory hierarchy and system interconnects.
  • Understanding of ARM system-on-chip concepts and architecture specifications, including SMMU, GIC, CoreSight-PMU, and bus interface protocols.
  • Knowledge and experience with ARM v8 and v9 specifications.
  • Experience with Vulkan, OpenGL, DirectX 12, or CUDA.
  • Understanding of industry power and performance benchmarks, including system interactions and dependencies.
  • Knowledge of system power and performance analysis tools and techniques.
  • Understanding of computer hardware and architecture.
  • Knowledge of software power-management stacks and scheduler behavior.

Responsibilities

  • Enable, profile, and analyze complex concurrent system use cases in emulation and software environments, including Android, Linux, and Windows.
  • Define and document performance and power analysis plans for system use cases across CPU, GPU, and artificial intelligence/machine learning workloads, as well as concurrent scenarios.
  • Identify performance optimization opportunities in system-on-chip software and hardware architectures.
  • Direct triage of complex performance issues to determine root causes and present results to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with product management, hardware, and software engineering teams to implement power, performance, and thermal solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentor, and guide engineers in executing multiple programs.
  • Prepare reports and recommendations for product teams and senior executives to inform business decisions and next-generation architecture choices.
  • Define and develop automation to improve team efficiency.

Desired Qualifications

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to work independently and take initiative.

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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