System Performance Engineering Lead

San Diego, CA, United States

Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > PPT Systems Engineering General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Systems Engineer, you will research, design, develop, simulate, and/or validate systems-level software, hardware, architecture, algorithms, and solutions that enables the development of cutting-edge technology. Qualcomm Systems Engineers collaborate across functional teams to meet and exceed system-level requirements and standards.

Qualcomm's System Performance Team is responsible for optimizing and validating performance for Qualcomm Snapdragon Chipsets across all business units such as Mobile, Compute, Automotive, and IOT. In the role of System Performance Compute Engineering Lead, you will lead and manage a team that collaborates with software, hardware, and architecture teams to optimize power, performance, and thermal behavior of the system. You will leverage your advanced systems knowledge and experience to research, simulate, and validate performance and ensure product requirements are met. You will be responsible for leading a team of engineers to achieve engineering excellence across multiple projects.

Key Responsibilities

Managing a team of engineers to enable and profile complex concurrent system use-cases in both emulation and software environments (Windows/Linux)

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

Identify areas of performance optimization in the SoC for both Software and Hardware architectures

Direct triage of complex performance issues to determine root-cause and present results to internal and external stakeholders

Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product management, hardware, and software engineering, etc.) to implement optimal power, performance, and thermal solutions.

Mentor and guide engineers to successfully execute multiple programs.

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

Defining and developing automation for the team to operate more efficiently.

Align best-practices within SPT and Qualcomm across business units for power and performance analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree in Computer Engineering

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

3+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (Sr. Director, Vice President level and above)

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 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 and scheduler behavior (Windows/Linux)

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Pay range:

$204,000.00 - $306,000.00 The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer!

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