CPU Performance Analysis Engineer

Qualcomm • Santa Clara, CA

1d • $167,000 - $250,600

About The Position

As a CPU Performance Analysis Engineer, you will be working on CPU performance analysis and tuning, projecting CPU roadmap performance, workload characterization and thread-level behavioral modeling, workload tracing, and performing competitive performance analysis using industry standard benchmarks and workloads.

Requirements

• 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
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ 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).

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering / Science with 10+ years of relevant work experience
• Experience with hardware performance profiling tools (such as Vtune, perf), binary instrumentation tools (such as DynamoRio, PIN)
• Experience with characterizing industry standard benchmarks (e.g. CPU2017, GeekBench, AnTuTu, 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

Responsibilities

• Collect CPU performance data for various workloads and benchmarks
• Conduct detailed workload characterization on silicon and performance simulators
• Profile workload execution and develop single-threaded and multi-threaded behavior models of industry standard benchmarks
• Develop tools and techniques to project SOC benchmark performance using CPU performance simulator and analytical characterization models
• Prepare benchmark projections for roadmap and competitive CPU / SOC comparison and analysis
• Build competitive performance prediction models
• Present the competitive performance data in a concise manner

Benefits

• competitive annual discretionary bonus program
• opportunity for annual RSU grants
• highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior