Performance Modeling Architect: AI Accelerators & SoCs

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 192,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks an experienced Performance Modeling Engineer to drive architectural exploration, performance analysis, and system-level optimization for next-gen processors, AI accelerators, and SoC platforms.

The role requires deep expertise in processor architecture, memory systems, cache hierarchies, coherent interconnects, and transaction-level modeling, collaborating with architecture, RTL, verification, software, and system teams to guide design decisions from concept

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience or equivalent.
• Master's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent.
• PhD with 4+ years of relevant experience or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain transaction-level and analytical performance models for processors, memory hierarchies, interconnects, and accelerators.
• Create detailed models of cache hierarchies, coherent interconnects, memory subsystems, DMA engines, SMP systems.
• Evaluate architectural tradeoffs involving performance, power, area, latency, bandwidth, and scalability.
• Analyze workload behavior and identify system bottlenecks through simulation and modeling.
• Drive architectural studies for next-generation multicore and cache-coherent systems.
• Perform deep performance analysis of branch prediction, hardware prefetching, speculative execution, load/store architectures, and coherence protocols.
• Model and validate the behavior of multithreaded and multiprocessor workloads.
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to correlate models with RTL, emulation, and silicon data.
• Present architectural recommendations and performance insights to engineering leadership.

Skills

C++ programming

Python

SystemC/TLM

Processor architecture

Cache memory

Performance modeling

RTL collaboration

Education

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

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

SystemC

MATLAB/Simulink

Simulation tools

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks an experienced Performance Modeling Engineer to drive architectural exploration, performance analysis, and system-level optimization for next-gen processors, AI accelerators, and SoC platforms.

The role requires deep expertise in processor architecture, memory systems, cache hierarchies, coherent interconnects, and transaction-level modeling, collaborating with architecture, RTL, verification, software, and system teams to guide design decisions from concept