Qualcomm CPU Performance Projections Engineer 

United States, California 

730733486

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

As a CPU performance projection engineer you will be responsible modeling and projecting the CPU performance for various Qualcomm SoCs. This will involve setting up the performance model and running simulations, characterizing workload’s behavior in silicon and simulator, building analytical performance projection models, correlating models vs silicon measurements. You will be the goto person for all CPU performance projection requests within the company and your work will directly impact the product roadmap.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ 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 7+ 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 6+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders to gather product specifications

• Setup the CPU/SoC configuration in the performance simulator and run simulations

• Characterize various industry standard benchmarks using silicon and/or the performance simulator

• Build an analytical performance prediction models for various benchmarks

• Correlate performance projections vs silicon measurements and refine the projection methodology accordingly

• Organize work and document status, results in Jiras

• Present the projection data at various forums in a clear and concise manner

Required Qualifications

• Strong grasp of computer architecture and OS fundamentals

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of performance modeling or related work experience

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Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of performance modeling or related work experience

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering / science with 10+ years of relevant work experience

• Experience in one or more of the following — CPU or SoC performance modeling, performance projections, analytical modeling, performance correlation / validation, workload characterization, performance measurements in silicon

• Experience with industry standard CPU benchmarks such as SPEC CPU, GeekBench, Speedometer, etc.

• Strong scripting skills -- Bash / Perl / Python

• Good understanding of statistical methods

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:

$218,000.00 - $327,000.00