Staff Thermal Limits Engineer
About The Position
Qualcomm’s System Performance Team optimizes and validates performance for Snapdragon chipsets across server, mobile and compute, automotive, and IoT business units. The Staff Thermal Limits Engineer leads collaboration with software, hardware, and architecture teams to optimize system power, performance, and thermal behavior, with a priority on server business needs. The role uses advanced systems knowledge to research, simulate, and validate performance and ensure products meet thermal and electrical requirements, while leading engineering activities across multiple projects. The engineer defines thermal and limits-management strategies, conducts silicon and system-level testing and validation, analyzes performance across workloads and concurrent scenarios, and directs investigations into complex issues. The role also provides technical leadership and mentorship, coordinates program activities, develops automation—including use of generative AI tools—and communicates recommendations to product teams and senior executives.
Requirements
- 10 or more years of practical post-silicon experience analyzing power and performance of complex SoCs.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and take initiative.
- Experience with industry power and performance benchmarks, including system interactions and dependencies.
- Working experience with computer hardware and architecture.
- Understanding of memory hierarchy and system interconnects.
- Understanding of ARM SoC concepts and architecture specifications such as SMMU, GIC, Coresight-PMU, and bus interface protocols.
- Knowledge and experience with ARM v8 and v9 specifications.
- Understanding of system power and performance analysis tools and techniques.
- Knowledge of software power-management stacks and scheduler behavior.
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Python and C/C++.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Computer Engineering.
- Experience working with server thermal and/or electrical requirements.
Responsibilities
- Identify sustained and transient thermal and electrical requirements, and lead investigations into limits-management hardware architectures and protection mechanisms.
- Define and develop next-generation thermal and limits-management strategies for Qualcomm products, prioritizing server business-unit needs.
- Define and conduct thermal and limits systems testing and validation on silicon and system-level platforms.
- Work with power and performance teams to optimize thermal and power trade-offs.
- Define and document thermal, performance, and power analysis plans and updates for system use cases across CPU, GPU, AI/ML, and concurrent workloads.
- Identify SoC performance-optimization opportunities in software and hardware architectures.
- Direct triage of complex performance issues, determine root causes, and present findings to internal and external stakeholders.
- Collaborate with product management, hardware, and software engineering teams to implement power, performance, and thermal solutions.
- Provide technical management, mentorship, and guidance to engineers executing multiple programs.
- Plan tasks, prioritize activities, and track progress.
- Define and develop automation and use generative AI tools to improve team efficiency.
- Prepare clear, concise reports and recommendations for product teams and senior executives to support business decisions and next-generation architecture choices.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants, except for employees on sales-incentive plans.
- Competitive benefits package.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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