Qualcomm CPU Architecture Performance Engineer 

United States, Texas, Austin 

587300100

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

The Potential Areas to Work Include:

The main responsibility of this position is to do the performance verification for world-class custom CPU for mobile and portable computers.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Proficiency in one or more areas of CPU architecture: fetch, decode, branch prediction, renaming, execute units, SIMD, load/store, MMU, caches, retire, etc.

• Verify performance feature between RTL and model, and have ability to troubleshooting

• Work with design team and performance team to develop test case and validate new feature

Preferred Qualifications

• MS degree in Computer Architecture with 5+ years of practical experience

• Good CPU architecture knowledge and micro-architecture knowledge

• Experience working in a RTL simulation environment

• Experience working in a performance modeling environment

• Proficient in Verilog, C and C++ and scripting languages such as Perl or Python

• Ability to problem solve and prove your own ideas

• Knowledge and experience with common performance benchmarks and workloads

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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

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

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range:

$139,000.00 - $234,500.00