Qualcomm Competitive Performance Power Analyst 

United States, Texas, Austin 

904089700

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > SoC Architecture

As a competitive performance and power analyst, you will be working on CPU performance and power characterization, bring up industry-standard workloads and benchmarks for competitive analysis, create microbenchmarks to better understand competition, model competition’s future performance-power and trace workloads to feed the inhouse full-chip performance model. This work will influence the company’s future SoC roadmap.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Collecting power-performance data for various CPU workloads / benchmarks

• Characterizing burst and sustained performance/power capabilities of systems

• Conducting detailed workload characterization and sensitivity analysis

• Writing micro-benchmarks to understand performance characteristics of a SoC

• Collect traces to feed the performance simulation model

• Build competitive performance prediction models

• Present the power-performance data in a concise manner

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ 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).

Preferred Qualifications:

· MS degree in Electrical / Computer Eng with 5 years of relevant experience

· Firm grasp of computer architecture and OS fundamentals

· Experience with characterizing industry standard benchmarks such as CPU2017, SpecJBB, PCMark, …

· Experience with hardware performance counter (PMU) and binary instrumentation tools

· Experience in writing micro-benchmarks to measure CPU power/performance characteristics

· Prior experience in tracing workloads to drive performance prediction models is a plus

· Experience with building competitive performance-power predictive models

· Knowledge of the competitive landscape, feature specifications and industry trends in the server and client domain

· Experience in Linux kernel internals / system programming

· Strong scripting skills -- Bash / Perl / Python

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:

$139,000.00 - $208,000.00