SoC Systems Performance Engineer, Senior

Job Posting Date

2025-07-29

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.

We have an exciting and dynamic technical position available with a focus on SoC performance analysis. 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.
• 3+ years System Engineering or related work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS or PHD degree
• 3+ 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

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