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SoC Systems Performance Engineer, Senior

Job in San Diego, San Diego County, California, 92189, USA
Listing for: Qualcomm
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-16
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, Hardware Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 60000 - 80000 USD Yearly USD 60000.00 80000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: SoC Systems Performance Engineer, Senior Staff

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > PPT Systems Engineering

General

Summary:

Qualcomm's Chip Architecture multi-site team of systems engineers, hardware and software architects are driving analysis and defining next-generation architectures for our system-on-chip (SoC) products for mobile, automotive, Compute and other product categories.

We have an exciting and dynamic technical position available with a focus on SoC performance analysis. The successful candidate will engage collaboratively across the company to work with architects and engineers in core HW design & verification, SW, marketing, and product planning teams, to:

  • Engineer market-leading SoC products with best-in-class performance
  • Lead and conduct performance and systems studies
  • Conduct or contribute to analysis to define our SOC architecture plans simultaneously taking into account performance, power and thermal
  • Collaborate with HW and SW teams to define best-in-class multimedia, modem, compute and memory technologies
  • Define complex use cases including new workloads (Gaming, AI) and infer systems requirements
  • Deploy simulators, profilers, or hardware to understand performance bottlenecks and provide quantitative justification for architectural changes or tuning
  • Directly apply computer architecture knowledge of CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, cache coherency, virtual memory, etc.
  • Effectively communicate and experimental results with technical leads and peers
  • Creatively overcome obstacles to obtain the answers to architectural questions
  • Invent and file patents on technical solutions to relevant problems


Position Requirements /

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
  • 5+ years System Engineering or related work experience
Preferred Qualifications:
  • MS or PHD degree
  • 7+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Industry experience required in one or more of the following areas:
  • Computer Architecture concepts, such as CPU, GPU, DSP, interconnects, shared memory, etc.
  • System or chipset development for SoC products, preferably in the mobile market
  • OS principles and HW/SW interaction
  • SoC bus, interconnect, memory technologies, memory controllers, scheduling, MMUs
  • Hands-on experience in using and modifying simulators and performance/power models, especially full-system models
  • System

    C and event driven simulators
  • Using code and/or system profiling tools
  • C/C++ programming
  • VLSI design and verification
  • Pragmatic scripting & automation skills
  • Familiarity with ARM, Linux
  • Familiarity with multimedia or communication technologies including audio codec, video codec, camera, WLAN, LTE and 5G
Applicants
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Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail disability-accomodations at qualcomm dot com or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process.

Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (We will not respond to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries at this email.)

EEO Employer:
Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including 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.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits: $ - $

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Salary is only one component of total compensation  offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). We also offer a highly competitive benefits package.

Your recruiter can discuss details about Qualcomm benefits. More information about our US benefits is available via the provided link.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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