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Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > SoC Architecture

General Summary:

Our mission is to reimagine silicon and create computing platforms that will transform the industry. You will have the opportunity to work with some of the most talented and passionate engineers in the world to create designs that push the envelope on performance, energy efficiency and scalability.

As a competitive performance and power analyst, you will be working on CPU performance and power characterization, bring up industry-standard workloads and benchmarks for competitive analysis, create microbenchmarks to better understand competition, model competition’s future performance-power and trace workloads to feed the inhouse full-chip performance model. This work will influence the company’s future SoC roadmap.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Collecting power-performance data for various CPU workloads / benchmarks

• Characterizing burst and sustained performance/power capabilities of systems

• Conducting detailed workload characterization and sensitivity analysis

• Writing micro-benchmarks to understand performance characteristics of a SoC

• Collect traces to feed the performance simulation model

• Build competitive performance prediction models

• Present the power-performance data in a concise manner

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

• 2+ years of experience in one or more system architecture technology areas and products (e.g., Power System, Shared Resource Management, Limits/Thermal Management, Hardware Islands).

Preferred Qualifications:

· MS degree in Electrical / Computer Eng with 5 years of relevant experience

· Firm grasp of computer architecture and OS fundamentals

· Experience with characterizing industry standard benchmarks such as CPU2017, SpecJBB, PCMark, …

· Experience with hardware performance counter (PMU) and binary instrumentation tools

· Experience in writing micro-benchmarks to measure CPU power/performance characteristics

· Prior experience in tracing workloads to drive performance prediction models is a plus

· Experience with building competitive performance-power predictive models

· Knowledge of the competitive landscape, feature specifications and industry trends in the server and client domain

· Experience in Linux kernel internals / system programming

· Strong scripting skills -- Bash / Perl / Python

Although this role has some expected minor physical activity, this should not deter otherwise qualified applicants from applying. If you are an individual with a physical or mental disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, please call Qualcomm’s toll-free number found here (https://qualcomm.service-now.com/hrpublic?id=hr_public_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0039028) for assistance. Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, to support individuals with disabilities as part of our ongoing efforts to create an accessible workplace.

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Pay range:

$139,000.00 - $208,000.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer!

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EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification