SoC Systems Performance Engineer
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
- 1+ years System Engineering or related work experience
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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
Benefits
- competitive annual discretionary bonus program
- opportunity for annual RSU grants
- competitive benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
