CPU Post Silicon Power and Performance Engineer, Senior/Staff - Cork, Ireland

Qualcomm; Cork; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary and stock bonuses

Relocation support

Education assistance

Health and life insurance

Pension matching

Job summary

QT Technologies Ireland Limited in Cork is seeking an experienced Post‑Silicon Power and Performance Engineer focused on CPUs. You will characterize, debug, and optimize CPU performance and power in a complex SoC, set up validation plans, and drive tuning to meet silicon targets.

Collaboration across design, architecture, and software ensures readiness for first silicon and informs next‑gen CPU architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• Master’s degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute end-to-end performance and power analysis plans for complex CPU subsystems.
• Debug issues found during pre-silicon, bring-up, validation, and production phases of SOC programs.
• Define an optimization strategy that delivers world-class CPU workload performance.
• Lead collaborative test approach with multiple teams and track test execution.
• Work with design, architecture, emulation, firmware, VI and software to ensure readiness for first silicon arrival.
• Develop deep knowledge of CPU architecture, SoC systems, benchmarking, and power optimization.
• Drive technical innovation to enhance CPU performance and power validation with tools and methodologies.

Skills

ASIC design

Verification

Validation

Integration

CPU architecture

ARM v8/v9

Power analysis

Performance analysis

Scripting

Team leadership

Tools

Python

C/C++

Job description

Company

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next‑generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Engineer, you will define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for a variety of high performance, high quality, low power world class products. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional groups to determine product execution path.

As a Post SIlicon Power and Performance Engineer with a focus on CPUs, you will work to characterize, debug, and optimize the performance and power consumption of CPUs in a complex SoC system. You will help set up methodologies, develop validation plans, recommend tuning optimizations, and verify that the newly arrived silicon meets the highest performance. You will also participate in architecture and product definition feedback for the next generation of CPU by closing the loop with real silicon analysis.

Roles And Responsibilities Will Include

• Define and execute end-to-end performance and power analysis plans for complex CPU subsystems
• Debug issues found during pre-silicon, bring-up, validation, and production phases of SOC programs
• Define an optimization strategy that delivers world class CPU workload performance
• Lead collaborative test approach with multiple teams, and tracking test execution to make sure all features are performant and optimized on time
• Work closely with supporting teams in design, architecture, emulation, firmware, design verification and software to ensure readiness for first silicon arrival, evaluation of IP performance upon silicon arrival, and evaluation of critical CPU workloads
• Develop deep knowledge of CPU architecture, SoC system architecture, system benchmarking techniques, and power reduction and optimization methods
• Drive technical innovation to enhance capabilities in CPU performance, system performance and power validation including tools and script development, technical and procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross‑functional technical initiatives

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor or Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering
• 5 to 10+ years of practical experience in post silicon performance and power analysis of SoCs
• Strong programming/scripting skills (C/C++, Python scripts)
• Strong analytical skills for test plan creation and debug
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Must excel in a dynamic team working environment
• Must be a self‑starter and be able to independently drive tasks to completion
• Leadership and mentoring skills a definite asset
• Proven understanding of CPU, memory hierarchy, system interconnects.
• Knowledge and experience in ARM v8 and v9 specifications
• Solid grasp of ARM SoC concepts and architecture specifications like SMMU, GIC, Coresight-PMU and Timer architectures
• Extensive experience in the following technical areas:
• Proven understanding of critical industry CPU workloads and system interactions and dependencies
• Platform benchmarking and knowledge of performance workloads
• Performance analysis tools and analysis techniques
• Power analysis methods and comprehensive understanding of power consumption
• Power management methodologies and deep understanding of tuning and optimization
• Modern lab equipment, including DAQs, protocol/logic analyzers, oscilloscopes
• Computer hardware and architecture (experience with datacenter servers a plus)

Where you will be working

Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.

There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.

A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

Equal Opportunities

We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.

What's On Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Matching pension scheme
• Education Assistance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being
• Bicycle purchase scheme
• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

• References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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