Principal Power Systems Engineer: Snapdragon Compute Chipsets

Qualcomm; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 217,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks an experienced Chipset Power System Engineer to solve power challenges and optimize power for Snapdragon Compute Chipsets.

The role leads multi-disciplinary teams to model SOC power and deliver hardware/software power optimization. Requirements include a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and 10+ years of relevant experience in power design, modeling, and system-level analysis.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field.
• 10+ years of professional experience in power/low power design preferred.
• Experience with SOC or chipset power modeling and analysis.
• Knowledge of ML for compute applications is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Power architecture and tradeoff analysis across SOC and chipset.
• Model, analyze and optimize chipset/system power for platforms.
• Identify power gaps and quantify associated risks.
• Improve power efficiency and performance of current designs.
• Guide cross-functional teams through power targets during design cycles.
• Design power features and coordinate with systems, software, hardware teams.
• Interact with customers to address power requirements and showcase capabilities.
• Model power for customer-specific use cases and designs.

Skills

Power architecture

SOC power modeling

Low power design

Hardware optimization

Software optimization

System power analysis

Machine learning for compute

Education

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > PPT Systems Engineering

General Summary

Qualcomm is looking for an experienced Chipset Power System Engineer who is passionate in solving power challenges and develop innovative solutions for optimizing power for next generation Snapdragon Compute Chipsets. The engineer is expected to lead a cross-functional engineering team to model SOC/chipset power and come up with innovative solutions to optimize hardware and software to enhance SOC and chipset and achieve world-class chipset low power consumption.

Responsibilities

In this position, the engineer will be involved in all stages of the design and development cycles guiding the power-efficient design of the end-end solution. Responsibilities include:

• Power architecture and tradeoff analysis
• Chipset and system level power modeling, analysis and optimization for SOC, chipset and platform solutions.
• Identify power requirements and quantify power gap/risk areas.
• Optimize power efficiency and performance of present generation designs and help architect future products.
• Guide multi-function groups through the design cycle in realizing the power targets set forth at the inception of the project.
• Design of power features and work with cross functional teams (systems, software, hardware, silicon process, production test, etc.).
• Customer interaction to advertise the capabilities of the chipset, and to understand and address specific power requirements.
• Power modeling of customer-specific use cases and designs.

This role is available in multiple locations at different levels.

The compensation range will be determined upon the offer location and title.

Education and Experience

A Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field is required as a minimum. A minimum of 10 years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas is preferred.

• Analysis and design of low power features at SOC, chipset or platform level.
• Architectural knowledge in application processor, modem processor, AR/XR, machine learning, mobile or computing.
• System knowledge of mobile SOC or chipset.
• Hardware or software design or optimizations of low power features.
• System level power modeling and analysis.
• Understanding of machine learning networks for compute applications

Applicants

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EEO Employer

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

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Pay Range And Other Compensation & Benefits

$216,600.00 - $325,000.00

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. Even more importantly, please note that 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 (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.