Senior Post-Silicon CPU Power & Performance Engineer

Qualcomm; Cork; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary bonus

Relocation assistance

Education assistance

Pension matching

Insurance

Commuter benefits

Well-being programs

Job summary

QT Technologies Ireland Limited in Cork, Ireland, is seeking a CPU Post-Silicon Power & Performance Engineer to characterize and optimize next-generation CPU technologies in complex SoC platforms.

You will develop validation methodologies, run experiments, analyze silicon behavior, and provide actionable feedback to architecture, design, and product teams, leveraging lab equipment and automation across hardware and software domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years in post-silicon validation, CPU characterization, power/performance analysis or related fields.
• Strong understanding of modern CPU microarchitectures, memory hierarchies, and system-level performance.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end power, performance and characterization plans for CPU/SoC subsystems.
• Develop measurement methodologies and experiments across workloads and conditions.
• Debug performance, marginality and power correlations with pre-silicon projections.
• Analyze CPU microarchitecture interactions with memory, interconnects and firmware.
• Process and analyze large datasets to derive engineering insights.
• Collaborate with architecture, design, verification, firmware and software teams.
• Drive improvements in validation methodologies, tooling and capabilities.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Data analysis

Lab instrumentation

Debugging

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

PhD in related field

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

Power supplies

DAQs

Logic analyzers

Job description

QT Technologies Ireland Limited in Cork, Ireland, is seeking a CPU Post-Silicon Power & Performance Engineer to characterize and optimize next-generation CPU technologies in complex SoC platforms.

You will develop validation methodologies, run experiments, analyze silicon behavior, and provide actionable feedback to architecture, design, and product teams, leveraging lab equipment and automation across hardware and software domains.