Qualcomm Post Silicon Power Performance Engineer 

United States, Texas, Austin 

731495278

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

As a Post SIlicon Power and Performance Engineer with a focus on CPUs, you will work to characterize, debug, and optimize the performance and power consumption of a CPUs in a complex SoC system. You will help set up methodologies, develop validation plans, recommend tuning optimizations, and verify that the newly arrived silicon meets the highest performance. You will also participate in architecture and product definition feedback for the next generation of CPU by closing the loop with real silicon analysis.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Define and execute end-to-end performance and power analysis plans for complex CPU subsystems

• Debug issues found during pre-silicon, bring-up, validation, and production phases of SOC programs

• Define an optimization strategy that delivers world class CPU workload performance

• Lead collaborative test approach with multiple teams, and tracking test execution to make sure all features are performant and optimized on time

• Work closely with supporting teams in design, architecture, emulation, firmware, design verification and software to ensure readiness for first silicon arrival, evaluation of IP performance upon silicon arrival, and evaluation of critical CPU workloads

• Develop deep knowledge of CPU architecture, SoC system architecture, system benchmarking techniques, and power reduction and optimization methods

• Drive technical innovation to enhance capabilities in CPU performance, system performance and power validation including tools and script development, technical and procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross-functional technical initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor or Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering

• 3 to 8 years of practical experience in post silicon performance and power analysis of SoCs

• Strong programming/scripting skills (C/C++, Python scripts)

• Strong analytical skills for test plan creation and debug

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Must excel in a dynamic team working environment

• Must be a self-starter and be able to independently drive tasks to completion

• Leadership and mentoring skills a definite asset

• Proven understanding of CPU, memory hierarchy, system interconnects.

• Knowledge and experience in ARM v8 and v9 specifications

• Solid grasp of ARM SoC concepts and architecture specifications like SMMU, GIC, Coresight-PMU and Timer architectures

• Extensive experience in the following technical areas:

• Proven understanding of critical industry CPU workloads and system interactions and dependencies

• Platform benchmarking and knowledge of performance workloads

• Performance analysis tools and analysis techniques

• Power analysis methods and comprehensive understanding of power consumption

• Power management methodologies and deep understanding of tuning and optimization

• Modern lab equipment, including DAQs, protocol/logic analyzers, oscilloscopes

• Computer hardware and architecture (experience with datacenter servers a plus)

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:

$148,300.00 - $222,500.00