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System Performance Engineer, Senior

qualcomm

San Diego, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 Jun 2026

💰 $183,700/yr($122,500/yr – $183,700/yr)

About the role

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > PPT Systems Engineering

General Summary:

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

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

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

· Strong communication and collaboration skills.

· Self-starter and able to work independently.

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

· Understanding of memory hierarchy, and system interconnects

· Understanding of ARM SoC concepts and architecture specifications like SMMU, GIC, Coresight-PMU, and various bus interface protocols

· Knowledge and experience in ARM v8 and v9 specifications

· Experience with Vulkan, OpenGL, DX12, or CUDA

· Understanding of industry power and performance benchmarks along with system interaction and dependencies

· System power/performance analysis tools and techniques

· Computer hardware and architecture understanding

· Knowledge of SW Power management stacks and scheduler behavior

Applicants: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We