Qualcomm is looking for an experienced Power System Engineer who is passionate in solving power challenges and develops innovative solutions for optimizing power for Snapdragon wearable and robotics Projects.

In this critical role, you will be responsible for the analysis and optimization power consumption across various stages of our project development process. You will take the lead and collaborate closely with chipset power and technology teams to ensure our products meet power efficiency requirements. You are expected to have knowledge about Linux power management system, suspend/resume flow , Linux idle state selection, CPUDCVS architecture.

Responsibilities include:

Identify power requirements and quantify power gap/risk areas, optimize power consumption to meet the requirements
Analyze and debug system sleep block issues, optimize button power consumption
Analyze high DDR/CPU utilization issues, and provide optimization methos
Generate comprehensive reports and presentations summarizing analysis results and providing actionable recommendations to cross-functional teams

Minimum Qualifications

A master’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent field is required as a minimum.
Strong experience in developing and utilizing performance and power models using languages such as C and Python.
Solid knowledge of power management techniques such as Linux suspend/resume flow and idle state selection
System knowledge of Linux CPUDCVS architecture, CPU frequency governor PELT/WALT algorithm
System knowledge of Linux devfreq architecture
System knowledge of Linux thermal management
Strong experience of power analysis usage such as systrace, simpleperf, etc
Ability to review hardware schematic
Better to have experience about camera power optimization

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

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