Staff Engineer - Chipset Power

General Summary:

The candidate will join a dedicated team focused on achieving industry leading power consumption on Qualcomm chipsets, working with a wide set of teams across the company (systems, software, hardware, etc.) to realize solutions. In this position, the candidate will be involved in various stages of the power use case modeling, analysis, correlation, and improvement cycles.

Skills/experience:

Recent and relevant experience required in one or more of the following areas:

o Application processor o Modem Communication systems design

o Experience in mobile technologies areas (e.g., WAN modem, CPU, camera, , graphics,)

o Experience in commercialization of System-level power features is required, and an interest in System and analysis is a must.

o Solid foundation in Electrical Engineering, with the ability to work with spreadsheets and other custom tools at a detailed level.

Other Professional Attributes and Desired Skills:

o Systems/HW background with a good understanding of microprocessor and common SoC hardware blocks (Interconnects, Display, Graphics, etc.)

Responsibilities

The candidate is responsible for:

• Maintaining and developing chipset level power use case modeling tools and methodologies.
• Working with the power HW/SW/System teams to collect power use case definition and characteristics.
• Understanding the hardware architecture/design at a high level and how the power use cases exercise and map to individual HW blocks.
• Translating the power estimate requests into detailed tasks for end-to-end use case power modeling Analyzing the modeling output, summarizing the results, presenting, and proposing the improvement solutions.
• Enabling other teams to leverage the tools and methodologies to perform in-depth power analysis.

Education requirements:

• Required: Bachelor's/masters Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering
• Preferred: Masters

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience. ORMaster's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.