Staff Systems Performance Engineer

Job Posting Date

2025-07-29

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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. Qualcomm's System Performance Team is responsible for validating and optimizing performance for Qualcomm Snapdragon Chipsets across all business units such as Mobile, Compute, Automotive, and IOT. In the role of System Performance Engineer, you will perform the complex responsibility of profiling, analyzing and achieving optimal performance, power and thermal KPIs for a wide range of Qualcomm products. You will collaborate across multiple teams (e.g., IP, Design, Verification, Process, SW, Product Management, etc.) and job families (e.g., Modem, Multimedia, CPU, GPU, NSP, DSP, RF, PMIC, etc.) to drive the analysis and modeling towards implementation to achieve industry leading performance, power and thermal KPI targets for SoCs and Chipsets.

Key Responsibilities

• Leverages knowledge of Power, Performance, and Thermal Systems Engineering to achieve optimal performance standards for products across all BUs.

• Researches, architects, designs, develops, and validates SoC, Chipset and system level performance, power, thermal and limits models to estimate and optimize product defining KPIs for diverse industrial form factors targeting products across Mobile, Compute, XR, Cloud AI, Infrastructure, Automotive, CSS, and IOT BU roadmaps.

• Collaborates cross functionally to drive industry leading architecture and implementation to achieve power, performance and thermal KPI targets for products on the roadmap.

• Develops and deploys models, methodologies, and tools to profile, estimate, optimize, and validate use cases and data flows.

• Correlates Power Performance Thermal KPI targets for product defining use cases and benchmarks from product definition through commercialization.

• Provides optimal system-level recommendations for QoS, BW voting and other power, thermal, and limits management attributes and policies to internal development teams.

• Evaluates and optimizes system-level performance, power and thermal metrics across the silicon distribution.

• Drives triage of complex problems at the system level to determine root cause in RUMI and silicon platforms internally, and on customer platforms.

• Writes complex technical documentation for projects.

• Contributes to design reviews and project meetings

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering

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

• Understanding of industry power and performance benchmarks along with system interaction and dependencies

• System power/performance analysis tools and techniques

• Knowledge of SW Power management stacks and scheduler behavior

• Computer hardware and architecture understanding

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$148,300.00 - $222,500.00

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

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.