Key Responsibilities
Identify sustained and transient thermal and electrical requirements and lead investigations around limits management hardware architectures and protection mechanisms
Define and develop next generation thermal and limits management strategies for Qualcomm products, with a priority on server business unit needs
Define and conduct thermal and limit systems testing and validation on silicon and system-level platforms
Work closely with power and performance teams to optimize thermal and power trade-offs
Define and document thermal, performance and power analysis plans and updates for system use-cases across multiple workloads (CPU, GPU, AI/ML) as well as concurrent scenarios
Identify areas of performance optimization in the SoC for both Software and Hardware architectures
Direct triage of complex performance issues to determine root-cause and present results to internal and external stakeholders
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product management, hardware, and software engineering, etc.) to implement optimal power, performance, and thermal solutions.
Provide technical management, mentor and guide engineers to successfully execute multiple programs.
Plan tasks, prioritize activities and track progress.
Define and develop automation and leverage generative AI tools for the team to operate more efficiently
Prepare clear and concise reports and recommendations for product teams up to senior executives to help drive business decisions and next generation architecture choices
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in Computer Engineering
10+ years of practical post-silicon experience of power and performance analysis of complex SoCs
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Self-starter and able to work independently.
Experience with industry power and performance benchmarks along with system interaction and dependencies
Working experience in computer hardware and architecture
Experience working with server thermal and/or electrical requirements
Understanding of memory hierarchy, and system interconnects
Understanding of ARM SoC concepts and architecture specifications like SMMU, GIC, Coresight-PMU, and various bus interface protocols
Knowledge and experience in ARM v8 and v9 specifications
Understanding of system power/performance analysis tools and techniques
Knowledge of SW Power management stacks and scheduler behavior
Strong programming and scripting skills (Python, C/C++)
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits
$155,400.00 - $233,200.00
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