Company
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > SoC Architecture
General Summary
As a Lead CPU Performance Analysis Engineer, you will be working on CPU performance analysis and tuning, microbenchmark development, workload characterization, workload tracing, and performing competitive performance analysis using industry standard benchmarks and workloads.
Roles and Responsibilities
Collect CPU performance data for various workloads and benchmarks
Conduct detailed workload characterization on silicon and performance simulators
Profile workload execution and identify avenues for improving workload performance in software (OS, Libraries, Frameworks) and hardware
Develop tools and techniques to collect representative workload traces to feed the CPU performance simulator
Create micro-benchmarks to understand performance characteristics of competitor’s CPU / SoC
Build competitive performance prediction models
Present the competitive performance data in a concise manner
Minimum Skills/Experience
Strong grasp of computer architecture and OS fundamentals
Strong scripting skills -- Bash / Perl / Python
Proficiency in C / C++ / x86, ARM compatible assembly language
Familiarity with CPU performance models
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.
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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 12+ years of relevant work experience
Experience with hardware performance profiling tools (such as Vtune, perf), binary instrumentation tools (such as DynamoRio, PIN)
Experience with characterizing industry standard benchmarks (e.g. CPU2017, GeekBench, AnTuTu, Speedometer) and workloads such as Memcached, NGINX, Redis, DCPerf
Experience in writing micro-benchmarks to measure performance characteristics of a CPU / SoC
Prior experience in developing trace collection tools and using same to trace workloads to feed the CPU performance simulators
Experience with CPU performance simulators / analytical models
Experience in OS internals (Windows / Linux / Android), system programming and Compilers (GCC, LLVM, JIT)
Knowledge of the competitive landscape, feature specifications and industry trends in the server and client domain
Note: This position is open for Santa Clara, San Diego and Austin. The compensation will be adjusted as per the location.
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