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CPU Post-Silicon Performance Engineer

$147.9k - $221.9k

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Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

General Summary

As a "CPU Silicon Bring up and Validation Engineer" you would be part of the CPU Silicon Bringup Team, within the CPU team. The charter for CPU Silicon Bringup team would be to prepare for and support bring up of every SoC using the Custom CPUs - from first Silicon through to productization.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Work with CPU design and verification teams to develop CPU bring up and validation test plans.
  • Prepare for CPU bring up through pre-work on emulation and FPGA platforms.
  • Work with SOC bring up teams, software teams to plan CPU bring up.
  • Triage and debug failures on Silicon.
  • Develop test contents and testing strategies to assist validation of CPU on silicon.
  • Work with CPU verification teams to reproduce silicon fails on emulators and FPGAs.
  • Work with design team to suggest, architect new debug features to improve future CPU bringups.

Minimum Requirements

  • BA/BS degree in CS/EE with 5+ years' experience.
  • 3+ Experience in Silicon Validation and bring up.
  • Implementation of assembly, C/C++ language embedded firmware
  • Experience with software tool chain including assemblers, C compilers, Makefiles, and source code control tools.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

Preferred Requirements

  • Knowledge in Server performance - Ability to debug and analyze CPU from SPEC INT, SPEC Float and DC Perf workload analysis.
  • CPU, L2/LLC, NoC, memory, and DDR performance analysis
  • Emulation-based performance validation
  • Thermal behavior and sustained-performance analysis
  • DCVS, frequency, power, and thermal-limit correlation
  • Benchmark analysis and performance-regression debug
  • Correlation between emulation, Reference design, and silicon measurements
  • Cross-functional issue resolution with CPU, power, firmware, and system-validation teams

Equal Opportunity & Disability Accommodations

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail View email address on click.appcast.io or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

EEO Employer Statement

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

Policies & Procedures

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits

$147,900.00 - $221,900.00

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.

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