Qualcomm · 3 hours ago
SoC Systems Performance Engineer, Senior Staff
San Diego, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$179K/yr - $268K/yr
5+ years expQualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a leading company in semiconductor and telecommunications equipment. They are seeking a Senior Staff SoC Systems Performance Engineer to focus on SoC performance analysis, collaborating with various teams to drive the development of next-generation architectures for SoC products.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AISoftwareTelecommunicationsWireless
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
5+ years System Engineering or related work experience
Preferred
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
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
Benefits
Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
Opportunity for annual RSU grants
Highly competitive benefits package
Company
Qualcomm
Qualcomm designs wireless technologies and semiconductors that power connectivity, communication, and smart devices.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$3.5M1991-12-20IPO
1988-01-01Undisclosed· $3.5M
Leadership Team
Cristiano Amon
President and Chief Executive Officer
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