Qualcomm SoC Performance Architect 

United States, Texas, Austin 

593747766

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > SoC Architecture

As a SoC Performance Architect, you will create performance and power models for the fabric NoC / DRAM controller / IO blocks for server-class SoCs, correlate models against RTL behavior, prototype ideas and help productize performance/power features for future SoC designs.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ 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).

Required for this role:

• MS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineer with 3 years of experience in SoC performance/power modeling

• Strong grasp of the computer architecture fundamentals especially in the areas of interconnects, traffic QoS, distributed caches, coherency flows, DRAM controller and IO (PCIe) flows

• Proficient in C++ and Perl / Python

• Exposure to performance analysis and debug

• Ability to independently identify, troubleshoot and solve performance problems

Preferred qualifications

• MS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineer with 6 years of experience in CPU / SoC performance/power modeling, analysis / debug

• Expertise in one or more of these functional areas:

• Coherent fabrics based on the AMBA CHI / AXI protocol

• Memory controller designs for LPDDR5, DDR5

• IO controllers and fabric bridges for PCIe / CXL / CCIX

• Strong background in building fast, accurate SoC / CPU performance models C++ Exposure to testing and debugging performance issues in pre- and post-silicon environments

• Demonstrable experience in productizing features that improve performance/power characteristics of a design

Role and Responsibilities

• Develop a SoC performance/power model for blocks such as interconnect NoCs, distributed system caches, memory controllers, IO controllers

• Verify model correctness by writing unit-tests and debugging mismatches against expectations

• Identify ideas for improving the SoC’s performance/power characteristics. Prototype idea in the performance/power model and thoroughly characterize it

• Work with architects and RTL developers to productize the improvements identified through detailed studies

• Conduct RTL performance verification. This will involve creation of verification plans and directed tests / checkers

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.

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$198,600.00 - $297,800.00