Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > SoC Architecture

General Summary:

As a CPU Performance and Power Analysis Engineer, you will be working on CPU performance and power characterization and conducting competitive analysis using industry standard benchmarks and workloads. Your responsibilities lie primarily in the physical interaction with devices to enable measurement and data collection.

Required for this role:

BS degree in Electrical / Computer Eng with 2 years of relevant experienceSolid foundation in OS fundamentals related to DVFS mechanismsStrong scripting skills -- Bash / Powershell / PythonSoldering and physical modification of device power paths for measurementDAQ experience and fundamentals

Preferred qualifications:

MS degree in Electrical / Computer Eng with 5 years of relevant experienceFundamentals in PCB design and prototypingExperience with DAQ automation and custom tool enablementExperience with hardware performance counter and binary instrumentation toolsExperience with characterizing industry standard benchmarks (CPU2017, Geekbench, SpecJBB, AnTuTu).Experience in Linux kernel internals / system programmingFundamentals and experience in understanding thermal behavior of devicesKnowledge of the competitive landscape, feature specifications and industry trends in the server and client domain

Roles and Responsibilities:

Tasked with acquiring competitive platforms and physically modifying them to physically measure and collect power data across mobile, compute, and server competitive devicesRespond to requests to measure CPU power-performance data for various workloads and benchmarksBuild an independent and efficient methodology to enable your workPresent the power-performance data in a concise manner

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

• 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).

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$142,200.00 - $213,200.00

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 – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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