SoC Systems Performance Engineer, Senior
qualcommAbout the role
Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > PPT Systems EngineeringGeneral 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.
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
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