Lead CPU Performance Projections Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > SoC Architecture

General Summary:

Qualcomm Data Center team is developing High performance, Energy efficient server solution for data center applications. We are looking for highly talented, innovative, teamwork-oriented individuals for our cutting-edge technology work! 

As a Lead CPU performance projection engineer you will be responsible modeling and projecting the CPU performance for various Qualcomm SoCs. This will involve setting up the performance model and running simulations, characterizing workload’s behavior in silicon and simulator, building analytical performance projection models, correlating models vs silicon measurements. You will be expected to lead all CPU performance projection requests within the company and your work will directly impact the product roadmap.

 

Roles and Responsibilities

•   Work with stakeholders to gather product specifications

•   Setup the CPU/SoC configuration in the performance simulator and run simulations

•   Characterize various industry standard benchmarks using silicon and/or the performance simulator

•   Build an analytical performance prediction models for various benchmarks

•   Correlate performance projections vs silicon measurements and refine the projection methodology accordingly

•   Organize work and document status, results in Jiras

•   Present the projection data at various forums in a clear and concise manner

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

• 2+ years of experience in one or more system architecture technology areas and products (e.g., Power System, Shared Resource Management, Limits/Thermal Management, Hardware Islands).

Preferred Qualifications

•   Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering / science with 10+ years of relevant work experience

•   Experience in one or more of the following — CPU or SoC performance modeling, performance projections, analytical modeling, performance correlation / validation, workload characterization, performance measurements in silicon

•   Experience with industry standard CPU benchmarks such as SPEC CPU, GeekBench, Speedometer

•   Experience with modeling performance of complex server class workloads such as TPC-C, DCPerf, MemCacheD

•   Strong scripting skills -- Bash / Perl / Python

•   Good understanding of statistical methods

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$242,300.00 - $363,500.00

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.

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