CPU Performance & Power Analyst Staff Engineer

Qualcomm; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm is looking for a Hardware Engineer in Bengaluru, India to work on Snapdragon performance analysis. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the development of cutting-edge electronics systems.

The successful candidate will possess a strong background in CPU architecture, hands-on experience in performance analysis, and familiarity with ARM processors. This position offers exciting challenges in a rapidly innovating field.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• Experience with workload performance characterization and analysis.
• Hands-on experience in pre-silicon environments.

Responsibilities

• Analyze performance aspects of Snapdragon CPU subsystem.
• Guide execution team on CPUSS performance projections.
• Drive deep dive analysis on CPU subsystem bottlenecks.

Skills

Microprocessor and/or SoC Architecture

Performance characterization

Lauterbach debug environment

C/C++ programming

Data analysis skills

Linux boot knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or related field

Master's degree in relevant field

PhD in relevant field

Tools

ARM processors

Bare-metal environment

Debug tools

Performance benchmarks (Lmbench, Spec, Geekbench)

Job description

Company

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area

Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next‑generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring‑up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting‑edge, world‑class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross‑functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Would be working on Qualcomm Snapdragon CPUSS Architecture and performance team.
• Responsible for analyzing the performance aspects of Snapdragon CPU subsystem and influence the same for performance uplifts in upcoming revisions.
• Will be guiding the execution team by projecting CPUSS performance in upcoming chips and correlating them with pre‑silicon runs and post‑silicon measurements.
• Responsible for driving deep dive analysis on performance issues, bottleneck providing fixes or workarounds on CPU subsystem and related SOC Modules.
• The ideal candidate to have a strong CPU architecture / analysis background along with overall SOC wide exposure and Embedded system concepts on modern chipsets-based ARM/X86.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Familiar with Microprocessor and/or SoC Architecture and micro-Architecture, preferably ARM processors and ARM processor‑based systems.
• Experience of ARM based System Designs, Knowledge of CPU and hierarchical memory system, cache configurations and coherency issues in multi‑core systems.
• Experience with workload performance characterization, bottleneck analysis, and driving microarchitecture investigations on CPU/GPU/Systems with relevant performance matrix.
• Hands‑on with Lauterbach debug environment, Emulation platforms and experience in working with bare‑metal environment with knowledge of Linux boot.
• Engage with architects and design teams to investigate next‑generation CPU microarchitecture performance features through workload‑driven investigations, especially well‑known CPU benchmarks like Lmbench, Spec, Geekbench.
• Develop, simulate workloads for pre‑silicon performance analysis and performance projections on silicon.
• Lead initiatives for performance technology alignment across product engineering teams.

Good to have

• Minimum 9+ years of experience on relevant areas.
• Strong data analysis skills to identify performance trends from large data sets and the technical bent to investigate anomalies.
• Understanding of Linux and Android internals from a performance point of view.
• Strong programming experience in at least one language: C/C++, Perl, Python.
• Familiarity with hardware/software level performance analysis of industry standard benchmarks & open source applications.
• Excellent debugging skills at SoC and System level.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with peers and senior architects/design engineers across the globe.
• Familiar with pre‑silicon environments such as Verification, Emulation and Virtual Bring‑Up, etc.
• Good knowledge of high‑performance microprocessor architecture and complex SoC.
• Pre‑silicon performance experience is a huge plus.
• Post Silicon Experience and debugging on the devices using relevant Debug tools and Bus profiling tools are added advantage.

Educational qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics or Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science, with 6+ years of experience in SOC/CPU post‑silicon validation / performance analysis.
• Strong knowledge of modern OS kernel (Android, Linux), enable Linux/Android during bring‑up.

Applicants

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