CPU Performance and Power Analyst/Sr Staff Engineer

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Would be working on Qualcomm Snapdragon CPUSS Architecture and performance team.

Responsible for analyzing the performance aspects of Snapdragon CPU subsystem and influence the same for performance uplifts in upcoming revisions.

Will be guiding the execution team by projecting CPUSS performance in upcoming chips and correlating them with pre-silicon runs and post silicon measurements.

Responsible for driving deep dive analysis on performance issues, bottleneck providing fixes or workarounds on CPU subsystem and related SOC Modules.

The ideal candidate to have a strong CPU architecture / analysis background along with overall SOC wide exposure and Embedded system concepts on modern chipsets-based

ARM/X86

Essential Skills and Experience

Familiar with

Microprocessor and/or SoC Architecture

Experience of ARM based System Designs, Knowledge of CPU

and hierarchical memory system, cache configurations and coherency issues in multi-core systems

Experience with workload performance characterization,

bottleneck analysis, and driving microarchitecture investigations on CPU

Hands-on with Lauterbach debug environment, Emulation platforms and experience in working with

bare-metal environment with knowledge of Linux boot.

Engage with architects and design teams to investigate next-generation CPU microarchitecture performance features through workload-driven investigations, especially well-known CPU benchmarks like

Lmbench, Spec, Geekbench

Develop, simulate workloads for pre-silicon performance analysis and performance projections on silicon.

Lead initiatives for performance technology

Good to have

Minimum 12 + years years of experience on relevant areas.

Strong data analysis skills to identify performance trends from large data sets and the technical bent to investigate anomalies

Understanding of Linux and Android internals from a performance point of view.

Strong programming experience in at least one language:C/C++, Perl, Python

Familiarity with hardware/software level performance analysis of industry standard benchmarks & open source applications.

Excellent debugging skills at SoC and System level

Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with peers and senior architects/design engineers across the globe.

Familiar with pre-silicon environments such as Verification, Emulation and Virtual Bring-Up, etc.

Good knowledge of high-performance microprocessor architecture and complex SoC

Pre-silicon performance experience is a huge plus

Post Silicon Experience and debugging on the devices using relevant Debug tools and Bus profiling tools are added advantage.