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Lead CPU Performance Analysis Engineer

Job in Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, California, 95051, USA
Listing for: Qualcomm
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-16
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Systems Engineer, Hardware Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

## Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group SoC Architecture

General

Summary:

As a Lead CPU Performance Analysis Engineer, you will be working on CPU performance analysis and tuning, microbenchmark development, workload characterization, workload tracing, and performing competitive performance analysis using industry standard benchmarks and workloads.

Roles and Responsibilities

* Collect CPU performance data for various workloads and benchmarks

* Conduct detailed workload characterization on silicon and performance simulators

* Profile workload execution and identify avenues for improving workload performance in software (OS, Libraries, Frameworks) and hardware

* Develop tools and techniques to collect representative workload traces to feed the CPU performance simulator

* Create micro-benchmarks to understand performance characteristics of competitor's CPU / SoC

* Build competitive performance prediction models

* Present the competitive performance data in a concise manner

Minimum Skills/Experience

* Strong grasp of computer architecture and OS fundamentals

* Strong scripting skills -- Bash / Perl / Python

* Proficiency in C / C++ / x86, ARM compatible assembly language

* Familiarity with CPU performance models

Minimum Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

* 2+ years of experience in one or more system architecture technology areas and products (e.g., Power System, Shared Resource Management, Limits/Thermal Management, Hardware Islands).

Preferred qualifications

* Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering / Science with 12+ years of relevant work experience

* Experience with hardware performance profiling tools (such as Vtune, perf), binary instrumentation tools (such as Dynamo Rio, PIN)

* Experience with characterizing industry standard benchmarks (e.g. CPU
2017, Geek Bench, An Tu Tu , Speedometer) and workloads such as Memcached, NGINX, Redis, DCPerf

* Experience in writing micro-benchmarks to measure performance characteristics of a CPU / SoC

* Prior experience in developing trace collection tools and using same to trace workloads to feed the CPU performance simulators

* Experience with CPU performance simulators / analytical models

* Experience in OS internals (Windows / Linux / Android), system programming and Compilers (GCC, LLVM, JIT)

* Knowledge of the competitive landscape, feature specifications and industry trends in the server and client domain

Note:

This position is open for Santa Clara, San Diego and Austin. The compensation will be adjusted as per the location.

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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.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$ - $

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