Senior SoC Performance Engineer: Drive Architecture

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 122,500 - 183,700; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior SoC Systems Performance Engineer in San Diego to lead performance studies for mobile, automotive, and compute SoCs.

You will work with architects, HW/SW teams, and product planning to define architectures that optimize performance, power, and thermal characteristics. The role requires building and validating models, running full-system simulations, and presenting results to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field.
• 2+ years System Engineering or related work experience.
• MS or PhD degree.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Industry experience in computer architecture / SoC / mobile domain.

Responsibilities

• Lead and conduct performance and systems studies.
• Collaborate with HW and SW teams to define performance improvements.
• Deploy simulators and profilers to quantify bottlenecks and justify changes.
• Define use cases and workloads (gaming, AI) for SOC analysis.
• Communicate experimental results to technical leads.

Skills

C/C++ programming

System Architecture

CPU/GPU/DSP concepts

Performance modeling

OS principles & HW/SW interaction

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering / IS / CS

MS or PhD degree

Tools

SystemC

Full-system simulators

Performance/power models

Code profiling tools

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior SoC Systems Performance Engineer in San Diego to lead performance studies for mobile, automotive, and compute SoCs.

You will work with architects, HW/SW teams, and product planning to define architectures that optimize performance, power, and thermal characteristics. The role requires building and validating models, running full-system simulations, and presenting results to senior stakeholders.