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Systems Performance Lead – PPT Systems Engineering
Company | Qualcomm |
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Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
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Salary | $218300 – $327500 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Master’s |
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Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 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
Responsibilities
- Managing a team of engineers to enable and profile complex concurrent system use-cases in both emulation and software environments (Android/Linux/Windows)
- 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
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