Senior Power Architect for SoC & Chipset Efficiency

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 211,900 - 317,900; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego is seeking an experienced Chipset Power System Engineer to solve challenging power efficiency issues for Snapdragon Compute Chipsets.

You will lead a cross‑functional team to model SOC power and drive architecture choices that reduce power without sacrificing performance. This highly visible role requires a Master’s in Electrical Engineering and 10+ years in power design or modeling for mobile SOCs, with hands‑on experience in system‑level power analysis,

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field is required as a minimum.
• Minimum 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Power architecture

SOC power modeling

Hardware optimization

Software optimization

Cross-functional leadership

System-level power analysis

Education

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego is seeking an experienced Chipset Power System Engineer to solve challenging power efficiency issues for Snapdragon Compute Chipsets.

You will lead a cross‑functional team to model SOC power and drive architecture choices that reduce power without sacrificing performance. This highly visible role requires a Master’s in Electrical Engineering and 10+ years in power design or modeling for mobile SOCs, with hands‑on experience in system‑level power analysis,