CPU Performance and Power Analyst/Sr Lead Engineer

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware 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 Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

• Would be working on Qualcomm Snapdragon CPUSS Architecture and performance team.
• Responsible for analyzing the performance aspects of Snapdragon CPU subsystem and influence the same for performance uplifts in upcoming revisions.
• Will be guiding the execution team by projecting CPUSS performance in upcoming chips and correlating them with pre-silicon runs and post silicon measurements.
• Responsible for driving deep dive analysis on performance issues, bottleneck providing fixes or workarounds on CPU subsystem and related SOC Modules.
• The ideal candidate to have a strong CPU architecture / analysis background along with overall SOC wide exposure and Embedded system concepts on modern chipsets-based ARM/X86

Essential Skills and Experience

• Familiar with Microprocessor and/or SoC Architecture and micro-Architecture, preferably ARM processors and ARM processor-based systems.
• Experience of ARM based System Designs, Knowledge of CPU and hierarchical memory system, cache configurations and coherency issues in multi-core systems.
• Experience with workload performance characterization, bottleneck analysis, and driving microarchitecture investigations on CPU/GPU/Systems with relevant performance matrix
• Hands-on with Lauterbach debug environment, Emulation platforms and experience in working with bare-metal environment with knowledge of Linux boot.
• Engage with architects and design teams to investigate next-generation CPU microarchitecture performance features through workload-driven investigations, especially well-known CPU benchmarks like Lmbench, Spec, Geekbench.
• Develop, simulate workloads for pre-silicon performance analysis and performance projections on silicon.
• Lead initiatives for performance technology alignment across product engineering teams

Good to have

• Minimum 4+ years years of experience on relevant areas.
• Strong data analysis skills to identify performance trends from large data sets and the technical bent to investigate anomalies
• Understanding of Linux and Android internals from a performance point of view.
• Strong programming experience in at least one language: C/C++, Perl, Python
• Familiarity with hardware/software level performance analysis of industry standard benchmarks & open source applications.
• Excellent debugging skills at SoC and System level
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with peers and senior architects/design engineers across the globe.
• Familiar with pre-silicon environments such as Verification, Emulation and Virtual Bring-Up, etc.
• Good knowledge of high-performance microprocessor architecture and complex SoC
• Pre-silicon performance experience is a huge plus
• Post Silicon Experience and debugging on the devices using relevant Debug tools and Bus profiling tools are added advantage.

Educational qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics or Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science, with 6+ years of experience in SOC/CPU post-silicon validation / performance analysis
• Strong knowledge of modern OS kernel (Android, Linux), enable Linux/Android during bring-up