Job Description

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering

General Summary:

• As a competitive analysis system’s engineer,  specialize in competitive analysis of commercial devices in the compute and handset space. 
• Work to characterize, stress, and fully understand power, performance, and thermal behavior of these platforms. 
• Learn from the understanding and provide detailed and clear reports and recommendations to the chipset and product teams. 
• Also be responsible for developing and aligning measurement methodology across internal and external platforms. 
• Candidate will be detail-oriented and possess an innate curiosity and desire to learn and understand external devices. 
• Need to have excellent communication skills and able to clearly summarize your results for an executive audience.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Define and execute performance and power analysis plans for system use-cases across multiple workloads (CPU, GPU, AI/ML) as well as concurrent scenarios on competitive devices.
• Identify and define re-work instructions to instrument competitive devices using minimally invasive methods.
• Develop deep knowledge and understanding of internal and external SoC system architecture, system benchmarking and power optimization.
• Work closely with several teams to align measurement methodologies to fairly compare internal performance with competition.
• Prepare clear and concise reports and recommendations for product teams up to senior executives to help drive business decisions and next generation architecture choices.

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in computer or electrical engineering
• 10+ years of practical post-silicon experience of power and performance analysis of complex SoCs
• Strong programming and scripting skills (Python, C/C++)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Self-starter and able to work independently.
• 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
• Experience with x86 architecture and power management features in AMD and Intel products
• Experience with IOS power management features
• Experience with Vulkan, OpenGL, DX12, or CUDA
• Understanding of industry power and performance benchmarks along with system interaction and dependencies
• System power/performance analysis tools and techniques
• Computer hardware and architecture understanding
• Knowledge of SW Power management stacks
• Modern lab equipment such as DAQs, protocol/logic analyzers, temperature control units, and oscilloscopes
• Ability to perform minor lab rework such as opening a device to access power terminals for external observation and control.

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