SoC Systems Performance Engineer, Senior

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA seeks a systems engineer to help define next-generation SoC architectures for mobile, automotive, compute, and other products. You will work with HW/SW teams to study performance, power, and memory, and to translate architectural goals into implementable designs.

You will apply CPU/GPU/DSP concepts, run simulations, analyze bottlenecks, and communicate results to engineering leads. Strong C/C++ and SystemC experience is valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, information systems, computer science, or related field.
• 2+ years of system engineering or related work experience.
• MS or PhD degree.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Industry experience in computer architecture, SoC development, or OS principles.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architects and engineers across HW, SW, marketing and product planning to define SOC architecture plans balancing performance, power and thermal.
• Lead performance and systems studies to engineer market-leading SoC products.
• Define complex workloads (gaming, AI) and derive system requirements.
• Utilize simulators and profilers to identify bottlenecks and justify architectural changes.
• Communicate results effectively to technical leads and peers.
• Invent and file patents on technical solutions.

Skills

C/C++ programming

SystemC

Performance modeling

Linux familiarity

CPU/GPU/DSP concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering / CS / related field

MS or PhD degree

Tools

SystemC

Simulators

Power/ performance models

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > PPT Systems Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm's Chip Architecture multi-site team of systems engineers, hardware and software architects are driving analysis and defining next-generation architectures for our system-on-chip (SoC) products for mobile, automotive, Compute and other product categories.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will engage collaboratively across the company to work with architects and engineers in core HW design & verification, SW, marketing, and product planning teams, to:

• Engineer market-leading SoC products with best-in-class performance
• Lead and conduct performance and systems studies
• Conduct or contribute to analysis to define our SOC architecture plans simultaneously taking into account performance, power and thermal
• Collaborate with HW and SW teams to define best-in-class multimedia, modem, compute and memory technologies
• Define complex use cases including new workloads (Gaming, AI) and infer systems requirements
• Deploy simulators, profilers, or hardware to understand performance bottlenecks and provide quantitative justification for architectural changes or tuning
• Directly apply computer architecture knowledge of CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, cache coherency, virtual memory, etc.
• Effectively communicate and experimental results with technical leads and peers
• Creatively overcome obstacles to obtain the answers to architectural questions
• Invent and file patents on technical solutions to relevant problems

Position Requirements/Minimum 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
• 2+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Industry experience required in one or more of the following areas:
  • Computer Architecture concepts, such as CPU, GPU, DSP, interconnects, shared memory, etc.
  • System or chipset development for SoC products, preferably in the mobile market
  • OS principles and HW/SW interaction
  • SoC bus, interconnect, memory technologies, memory controllers, scheduling, MMUs
  • Hands-on experience in using and modifying simulators and performance/power models, especially full-system models
  • SystemC and event driven simulators
  • Using code and/or system profiling tools
  • C/C++ programming
  • VLSI design and verification
  • Pragmatic scripting & automation skills
  • Familiarity with ARM, Linux
  • Familiarity with multimedia or communication technologies including audio codec, video codec, camera, WLAN, LTE and 5G

Applicants:

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$122,500.00 - $183,700.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.