Senior Power & Performance Software Engineer

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego is seeking talented engineers for the Power and Limits management software group.

You will work across system, power, software, and hardware teams to develop architectures for Qualcomm's growing chipset portfolio and gain exposure to the full product lifecycle from pre-silicon to commercialization. The role emphasizes software development for memory and CPU constrained systems, performance/power optimizations, and HW/SW partitioning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Responsibilities

• Multiple aspects of software development - analyzing the requirements, designing robust software solutions, and ensuring that the power efficiency is met, for current and next generation chipsets to meet the growing product requirements on processors across various subsystems on the SoC
• Perform detailed analysis of the existing software to provide innovative recommendations to improve performance, memory, and power utilization, including software optimizations, SW/HW partitioning, new algorithms etc.
• Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation and debugging across all SOC components
• Involvement in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs
• Scope opportunities for HW acceleration by providing recommendations to the HW team

Skills

C

C++

Java

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego is seeking talented engineers for the Power and Limits management software group.

You will work across system, power, software, and hardware teams to develop architectures for Qualcomm's growing chipset portfolio and gain exposure to the full product lifecycle from pre-silicon to commercialization. The role emphasizes software development for memory and CPU constrained systems, performance/power optimizations, and HW/SW partitioning.