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Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > PPT Systems Engineering General Summary: Qualcomm's Chip Architecture multi-site team of systems engineers, hardware and software architects are driving analysis and defining next-generation architectures for our system-on-chip (SoC) products for mobile, automotive, Compute and other product categories. We have an exciting and dynamic technical position available with a focus on SoC performance analysis. The successful candidate will engage collaboratively across the company to work with architects and engineers in core HW design & verification, SW, marketing, and product planning teams, to: • Engineer market-leading SoC products with best-in-class performance • Lead and conduct performance and systems studies • Conduct or contribute to analysis to define our SOC architecture plans simultaneously taking into account performance, power and thermal • Collaborate with HW and SW teams to define best-in-class multimedia, modem, compute and memory technologies • Define complex use cases including new workloads (Gaming, AI) and infer systems requirements • Deploy simulators, profilers, or hardware to understand performance bottlenecks and provide quantitative justification for architectural changes or tuning • Directly apply computer architecture knowledge of CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, cache coherency, virtual memory, etc. • Effectively communicate and experimental results with technical leads and peers • Creatively overcome obstacles to obtain the answers to architectural questions • Invent and file patents on technical solutions to relevant problems Position Requirements/Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field. • 2+ years System Engineering or related work experience • MS or PhD degree • 2+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience • Excellent communication and presentation skills • Industry experience required in one or more of the following areas: • Computer Architecture concepts, such as CPU, GPU, DSP, interconnects, shared memory, etc. • System or chipset development for SoC products, preferably in the mobile market • OS principles and HW/SW interaction • SoC bus, interconnect, memory technologies, memory controllers, scheduling, MMUs • Hands-on experience in using and modifying simulators and performance/power models, especially full-system models • SystemC and event driven simulators • Using code and/or system profiling tools • C/C++ programming • VLSI design and verification • Pragmatic scripting & automation skills • Familiarity with ARM, Linux • Familiarity with multimedia or communication technologies including audio codec, video codec, camera, WLAN, LTE and 5G Applicants : Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. 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Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law. Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits : $129,500.00 - $194,300.00 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. 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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > PPT Systems Engineering
Engineer market-leading SoC products with best-in-class performance
Lead and conduct performance and systems studies
Conduct or contribute to analysis to define our SOC architecture plans simultaneously taking into account performance, power and thermal
Collaborate with HW and SW teams to define best-in-class multimedia, modem, compute and memory technologies
Define complex use cases including new workloads (Gaming, AI) and infer systems requirements
Deploy simulators, profilers, or hardware to understand performance bottlenecks and provide quantitative justification for architectural changes or tuning
Directly apply computer architecture knowledge of CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, cache coherency, virtual memory, etc.
Effectively communicate and experimental results with technical leads and peers
Creatively overcome obstacles to obtain the answers to architectural questions
Invent and file patents on technical solutions to relevant problems
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
2+ years System Engineering or related work experience
MS or PhD degree
2+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Industry experience required in one or more of the following areas:
Computer Architecture concepts, such as CPU, GPU, DSP, interconnects, shared memory, etc.
System or chipset development for SoC products, preferably in the mobile market
OS principles and HW/SW interaction
SoC bus, interconnect, memory technologies, memory controllers, scheduling, MMUs
Hands-on experience in using and modifying simulators and performance/power models, especially full-system models
SystemC and event driven simulators

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