Senior System Performance Engineer for AI & Data Center

MaC VC; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA seeks a System Performance Engineer to profile and optimize AI/HPC workloads, analyze power and thermal behavior, and drive system-level performance improvements across SoC architectures.

You will collaborate with hardware, software, and architecture teams, develop tooling, and mentor junior engineers while delivering clear technical reports and recommendations.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a related field required.
• 4+ years of post-silicon experience in power and performance analysis of complex SoCs.
• Proficient in Python and C/C++ for scripting and tooling.
• Familiarity with ARM SoC concepts, memory hierarchy, and system interconnects.
• Experience with profiling, performance monitoring, and optimization workflows.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.

Responsibilities

• Enable, profile, and analyze AI/ML workloads and HPC systems in emulation and software environments.
• Execute performance and power analysis plans across compute, memory, storage, networking, and accelerators.
• Identify optimization opportunities in SoC hardware and software architectures.
• Analyze performance and power issues, determine root causes, and report findings.
• Collaborate with product, hardware, software, and architecture teams to improve system performance.
• Evaluate emerging AI workloads to understand behavior and optimization potential.
• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge.
• Prepare reports, documentation, and presentations with clear recommendations.
• Develop tooling and automation to streamline performance investigations.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Performance analysis

Profiling techniques

System architecture

Memory hierarchy

ARM SoC concepts

Power and thermal optimization

Communication skills

Collaboration

Education

Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA seeks a System Performance Engineer to profile and optimize AI/HPC workloads, analyze power and thermal behavior, and drive system-level performance improvements across SoC architectures.

You will collaborate with hardware, software, and architecture teams, develop tooling, and mentor junior engineers while delivering clear technical reports and recommendations.