Senior CPU Performance & Benchmarking Engineer

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Lawton (OK); On-site; USD 168,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in the United States seeks a CPU Performance Analysis Engineer to analyze and tune CPU performance, develop microbenchmarks, characterize workloads, and perform competitive analyses using industry benchmarks.

You will build traces, develop tools, and create performance models, collaborating with SoC architecture teams to push silicon and software optimization.

Qualifications

• Strong grasp of computer architecture and OS fundamentals.
• Strong scripting skills -- Bash / Perl / Python
• Proficiency in C / C++ / x86, ARM compatible assembly language
• Familiarity with CPU performance models

Responsibilities

• Collect CPU performance data for various workloads and benchmarks.
• Conduct detailed workload characterization on silicon and performance simulators.
• Profile workload execution and identify avenues for improving workload performance in software (OS, Libraries, Frameworks) and hardware.
• Develop tools and techniques to collect representative workload traces to feed the CPU performance simulator.
• Create micro-benchmarks to understand performance characteristics of competitor’s CPU / SoC.
• Build competitive performance prediction models.
• Present the competitive performance data in a concise manner

Skills

Bash/Perl/Python

C/C++/x86/ARM assembly

OS fundamentals

CPU performance models

Workload characterization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 6+ years of experience

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 5+ years of experience

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 4+ years of experience

2+ years of experience in system architecture technology areas

Tools

VTune

perf

DynamoRIO

PIN

GCC/LLVM/JIT

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in the United States seeks a CPU Performance Analysis Engineer to analyze and tune CPU performance, develop microbenchmarks, characterize workloads, and perform competitive analyses using industry benchmarks.

You will build traces, develop tools, and create performance models, collaborating with SoC architecture teams to push silicon and software optimization.