Qualcomm Principal Competitive Analysis Systems Engineer 

United States, California, San Diego 

801440125

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > PPT Systems Engineering

As a competitive analysis system’s engineer, you will specialize in competitive analysis of commercial devices in the compute and handset space. You will work to characterize, stress, and fully understand power, performance, and thermal behavior of these platforms. You will take this understanding and provide detailed and clear reports and recommendations to the chipset and product teams. You will also be responsible for developing and aligning measurement methodology across internal and external platforms. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented and possess an innate curiosity and desire to learn and understand external devices. You will have excellent communication skills and able to clearly summarize your results for an executive audience.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Define and execute performance and power analysis plans for system use-cases across multiple workloads (CPU, GPU, AI/ML) as well as concurrent scenarios on competitive devices.

• Identify and define re-work instructions to instrument competitive devices using minimally invasive methods.

• Develop deep knowledge and understanding of internal and external SoC system architecture, system benchmarking and power optimization.

• Work closely with several teams to align measurement methodologies to fairly compare internal performance with competition.

• Prepare clear and concise reports and recommendations for product teams up to senior executives to help drive business decisions and next generation architecture choices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in computer or electrical engineering

• 10+ years of practical post-silicon experience of power and performance analysis of complex SoCs

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

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Self-starter and able to work independently.

• Understanding of memory hierarchy, and system interconnects

• Understanding of ARM SoC concepts and architecture specifications like SMMU, GIC, Coresight-PMU, and various bus interface protocols

• Knowledge and experience in ARM v8 and v9 specifications

• Experience with x86 architecture and power management features in AMD and Intel products

• Experience with IOS power management features

• Experience with Vulkan, OpenGL, DX12, or CUDA

• Understanding of industry power and performance benchmarks along with system interaction and dependencies

• System power/performance analysis tools and techniques

• Computer hardware and architecture understanding

• Knowledge of SW Power management stacks

• Modern lab equipment such as DAQs, protocol/logic analyzers, temperature control units, and oscilloscopes

• Ability to perform minor lab rework such as opening a device to access power terminals for external observation and control.

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:

$198,000.00 - $297,000.00