CPU Performance Engineer

Job Posting Date

2025-07-25

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

General Summary:

The main responsibility of this position is to do the performance analysis for world-class custom CPU for mobile and portable computers.

The Potential Areas To Work Include

• CPU Performance verification
• CPU Performance bottleneck analysis

Qualifications

• Master's, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, emphasizing on computer architecture
• Good knowledge on in-order/out-of-order CPU microarchitecture and architecture
• Good knowledge on ARM bus protocol
• Good knowledge on DDR subsystem
• Good in C/C++ and scripting programming
• Hands-on experience on performance analysis and verification works

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in benchmark workload characterization and performance bottleneck analysis
• Hands-on experience with performance verification on simulator or emulator
• Familiar with ARMv8/v9 architecture
• Knowledge of OS, firmware and software stacks
• Familiar with systrace, ftrace, linux perf tool, and Android debug bridge
• Familiar with JTAG hardware debugger
• Familiar with GCC/LLVM compilation flow

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$122,500.00 - $183,700.00

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