System Performance Engineer, Senior Staff - Qualcomm

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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 Systems Engineer, you will research, design, develop, simulate, and/or validate systems-level software, hardware, architecture, algorithms, and solutions that enable the development of cutting-edge technology. Qualcomm Systems Engineers collaborate across functional teams to meet and exceed system-level requirements and standards. Qualcomm's System Performance Team is responsible for optimizing and validating performance for Qualcomm Snapdragon Chipsets across all business units such as Mobile, Compute, Automotive, IOT , Server and Data Center AI . In the role of System Performance Engineer, you will collaborate with software, hardware, and architecture teams to optimize power, performance, and thermal behavior of the system and be a technical lead to junior engineers across multiple projects. You will leverage your advanced systems knowledge and experience to research, simulate, and validate performance and ensure product requirements are met.

Key Responsibilities

· Enable, profile and analyze complex concurrent system use-cases in both emulation and software environments (Android/Linux/Windows)

· Define and document performance and power analysis plans for system use-cases across multiple workloads (CPU, GPU, AI/ML) as well as concurrent scenarios.

· Identify areas of performance optimization in the SoC for both Software and Hardware architectures

· Direct triage of complex performance issues to determine root-cause and present results to internal and external stakeholders

· Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product management, hardware, and software engineering, etc.) to implement optimal power, performance, and thermal solutions.

· Provide technical leadership, mentor and guide engineers to successfully execute multiple programs.

· Prepare clear and concise reports and recommendations for product teams up to senior executives to help drive business decisions and next generation architecture choices.

· Defining and developing automation for the team to operate more efficiently

Preferred Qualifications

· Master’s degree in Computer Engineering

· 10+ years of practical post-silicon experience of power and performance analysis of complex SoCs

· 3+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (Sr. Director, Vice President level and above)

· Strong programming and scripting skills (Python, C/C++)

· Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Knowledgeable in state-of-the-art workloads including AI, LLM

· Understanding of memory hierarchy, and system interconnects