Post Silicon Power and Performance Engineer - Engineer level

Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU EngineeringGeneral Summary: As a Post SIlicon Power and Performance Engineer with a focus on CPUs, you will work to characterize, debug, and optimize the performance and power consumption of a CPUs in a complex SoC system. You will help set up methodologies, develop validation plans, recommend tuning optimizations, and verify that the newly arrived silicon meets the highest performance. You will also participate in architecture and product definition feedback for the next generation of CPU by closing the loop with real silicon analysis.Roles and Responsibilities

Define and execute end-to-end performance and power analysis plans for complex CPU subsystems

Debug issues found during pre-silicon, bring-up, validation, and production phases of SOC programs

Define an optimization strategy that delivers world class CPU workload performance

Lead collaborative test approach with multiple teams, and tracking test execution to make sure all features are performant and optimized on time

Work closely with supporting teams in design, architecture, emulation, firmware, design verification and software to ensure readiness for first silicon arrival, evaluation of IP performance upon silicon arrival, and evaluation of critical CPU workloads

Develop deep knowledge of CPU architecture, SoC system architecture, system benchmarking techniques, and power reduction and optimization methods

Drive technical innovation to enhance capabilities in CPU performance, system performance and power validation including tools and script development, technical and procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross-functional technical initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor or Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering

Strong programming/scripting skills (C/C, Python scripts)

Strong analytical skills for test plan creation and debug

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Must excel in a dynamic team working environment

Must be a self-starter and be able to independently drive tasks to completion

Leadership and mentoring skills a definite asset

Proven understanding of CPU, memory hierarchy, system interconnects.

Knowledge and experience in ARM v8 and v9 specifications

Solid grasp of ARM SoC concepts and architecture specifications like SMMU, GIC, Coresight-PMU and Timer architectures

Extensive experience in the following technical areas:

Proven understanding of critical industry CPU workloads and system interactions and dependencies

Platform benchmarking and knowledge of performance workloads

Performance analysis tools and analysis techniques

Power analysis methods and comprehensive understanding of power consumption

Power management methodologies and deep understanding of tuning and optimization

Modern lab equipment, including DAQs, protocol/logic analyzers, oscilloscopes

Computer hardware and architecture (experience with datacenter servers a plus)

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