Data Center Engineering - Post Silicon Power and Performance Engineer

Qualcomm; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 148,300 - 222,500; Full time

Job summary

A leading semiconductor company is seeking a Data Center Post Silicon Power and Performance Engineer to optimize the performance and power consumption of SoCs. The role involves characterizing workloads, defining analysis plans, debugging issues, and ensuring peak performance. Ideal candidates should possess a degree in engineering and extensive experience in performance and power analysis, alongside strong programming skills. The position offers a competitive salary range between $148,300 and $222,500, with additional benefits and opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10+ years of practical experience in post-silicon performance and power analysis of SoCs.
• Experience in platform benchmarking and performance workloads.
• Proven understanding of critical CPU workloads and system interactions.

Responsibilities

• Characterize Data Center workloads on system to inform modeling.
• Define and execute end-to-end performance and power analysis plans.
• Debug issues during validation and production phases of SOC programs.

Skills

Power analysis methods

Strong programming/scripting skills (C/C++, Python)

Strong analytical skills for test plan creation

Strong familiarity with Data Center workloads

Communication and collaboration skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering

PhD in related field

Tools

DAQs

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

General Summary:

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

Roles and Responsibilities

• Characterize Data Center workloads on system to provide inputs into pre-Si modeling and projection
• Define and execute end-to-end performance and power analysis plans for complex server CPUs and systems
• 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 CPU and system performance upon silicon arrival, and evaluation of critical Data Center 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor or Masters Degree in Computer or 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 familiarity with Data Center workloads, including CPU, memory, and IO bound workloads
• 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
• 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)

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits: $148,300.00 - $222,500.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants. In addition, our benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will discuss details about Qualcomm benefits.

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