SOC Systems Performance Engineer

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 present 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

• MS or PhD degree
• 1+ 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
  • SystemC 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

$99,400.00 – $

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.