Compute GPU perf/power analysis engineer_

San Diego

**Company:**

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

**Job Area:**

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > GPU ASICS Engineering

**General Summary:**

Qualcomm is one of the largest fabless design companies in the world provides hardware, software and related services to nearly every mobile device maker and operator in the global wireless marketplace. The Qualcomm Graphics System Team is responsible for the development of end to end and system on chip (SOC) architectural solutions for next generation of graphics processing units (GPUs) and compute devices.

Responsibilities:

+ In this role, your work will have critical impact in influencing next generation GPUs to be more enhanced/efficient and to maintain competitive edge in Qualcomm Graphics solution.

+ You will be contributing to post-si performance and power efficiency analysis/validation at system level for the Windows graphics workloads such as benchmark, games, etc.

+ Accumulate and analyze competitive perf and power data for popular benchmark/games to identify/explain with reasonable evidence to explore architecture enhancement opportunities.

+ Debug/validate/exploit power optimization opportunities in SW for graphics use cases.

+ Work closely with HW/SW designers and architect to explore the opportunities identified in post-si analysis and find solution to integrate them in next generation SW/HW architecture.

+ Develop tools for efficient, streamlined and scalable debug/validation tasks.

+ Participate, contribute in next generation model improvement by providing post-si learning.

This role requires understanding of power concepts, system level architecture and micro-architecture details; be able to measure and analyze performance and power on internal and external compute devices, have understanding of different SOC components (such as CPU, GPU, DDR, path-to-DDR).

All Qualcomm employees are expected to actively support diversity on their teams, and in the Company.

The candidate must have:

+ Understanding of SOC architecture and common SoC hardware blocks (Display, Graphics, CPUs, BUS, etc.)

+ Experience in competitive performance and power analysis for CPU or GPU centric use cases understanding of power concepts at system architecture level as well as micro-architecture level Windows device post-si debugging experience.

+ Strong knowledge of python scripting

+ Min 5 years on job experience

+ Minimum of Bachelor degree required

**Minimum Qualifications:**

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Preferred to have:

Masters degree or PhD

10+ years of relevant experience SOC level power analysis as well as product level power analysis

Although this role has some expected minor physical activity, this should not deter otherwise qualified applicants from applying. If you are an individual with a physical or mental disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, please call Qualcomm’s toll-free number found here (ervice-now.com/hrpublic?id=hr\_public\_article\_view&sysparm\_article=KB0039028) for assistance. Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, to support individuals with disabilities as part of our ongoing efforts to create an accessible workplace.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.

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**EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.**

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:**

$182,500.00 - $273,500.00

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!

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers (ualcomm.com/contact/corporate) .

EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification