Qualcomm Lead NoC Performance Architect 

United States, California 

591229622

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > SoC Architecture

As a NoC Performance Architect, you will create NoC performance and power models for a wide range of SoCs spanning multiple product streams, correlate models against RTL behavior, prototype ideas and help productize performance/power features for future SoC designs.

Required for this Role:

• MS/PhD in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineer with 8+ years of experience in SoC performance modeling

• Strong grasp of the computer architecture fundamentals especially in the areas of interconnects, traffic QoS, distributed caches, coherency flows.

• Proficient in C++ and Perl / Python

• Ability to independently lead and mentor a team of junior performance architects

Preferred qualifications

• MS/PhD in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineer with 10+ years of experience in CPU / SoC performance/power modeling, analysis / debug

• Expertise in Coherent fabrics based on the AMBA CHI / AXI protocol or x86 equivalent

• 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

• Responsible for leading NoC performance architecture and contribute to pathfinding and performance projections for our leading SoCs

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

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

• 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

Minimum Qualifications:

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

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ 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).

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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$242,300.00 - $363,500.00