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General Summary:
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what is possible to enable next-generation experiences and drive digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. Join our automotive customer engineering team in San Diego as system/sw performance engineer. In this role, you will be instrumental in supporting numerous customer projects for enablement and launching by designing the system's performance goal, enabling and profiling applications, and resolving the performance issues for CPU, GPU, NPU, DDR etc. You will be a key engineer who will enable various workloads, including benchmarks, applications, defining the goals, optimizing the system performance in Qualcomm automotive chipset product. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet the performance expectations, ensuring the system is running at their best and are able to meet customer project performance requirements.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.Preferred Qualifications:
MS degree in Computer Science or related field; 8+ years of practical experience
Strong debugging\SW development experience in systems and software issues preferably on Automotive\Mobile\IoT SoC (System on Chip)
Embedded system performance analysis and SW optimization knowledge and experience
Good understanding of SoC architecture.
Knowledge on Android/AGL/QNX kernel, especially CPU scheduling. DVFS for the core and bus.
Knowledge on SoC (System on Chip) IP cores like CPU, GPU, DDR, DSP and assess the performance with benchmarks.
Understanding Linux kernel and device drivers and understanding of ARM architecture.
Embedded System architecture(s) with exposure to one or more OS (e.g., Android, Linux, QNX, etc.)
Strong software development skills, C and C++ programming, problem analysis, and debugging skills.
Works independently with minimal supervision.
Good Problem solving & Analysis skills; Communication skills and ability, and enthusiasm to learn.
Experience in system performance, software performance, BSP, or stability
Possess customer-facing experience in supporting project issue resolution, delivering training sessions, conducting presentations, and demonstrating comprehensive understanding of the customer project life cycle.
Principal Duties:
Use various tools to profile the application (or workload) and examine the logs/traces to identify and address any performance issues
Work with customers to root-cause performance issues and lead deep-dive debugs of customer use-cases.
Profile and analyze the boot KPI and benchmarks of cpu, gpu, DDR, etc.
Design system for proof of concept (demo)and implementation to prove feature and performance in QC automotive platform
Debug and isolate system, platform issues using software and hardware tools.
Analyze use case execution data and performance metrics to optimize system behavior
Writing or enhancing debugging tools for easy debugging, profiling performance issues.
Create performance documentation, presentation, train customers, and provide onsite support for customer project debugging.
Develop a sample application to demonstrate optimal performance in CPU, DDR, and end-to-end (E2E) pipelines.
Level of Responsibility:
Works independently with minimal supervision
Provide supervision/guidance to other team members
Collaborating directly with customers to ensure their satisfaction
Request verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and detailed information. May require strong influence with customers
Tasks focus on problem solving, but may not have well defined scope; multiple tasking and prioritization must occur to complete task effectively.
Decision-making is significant in nature
Be available for limited travel
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$145,000.00 - $217,600.00The 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. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.
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