JobsUSASoC Performance Architect
Company : Qualcomm
Location : San Diego, CA
Posted Date : 15 September 2025
Job Type : Full Time
Category : Architecture
Occupation : Architect
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Company
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > SoC Architecture
General Summary
Qualcomm Data Center team is developing High performance, Energy efficient server solution for data center applications. We are looking for highly talented, innovative, teamwork-oriented individuals for our cutting-edge technology work!
As a SoC Performance Architect, you will create performance and power models for the fabric NoC / DRAM controller / IO blocks for server-class SoCs, correlate models against RTL behavior, prototype ideas and help productize performance/power features for future SoC designs.
Minimum Skill Sets
- MS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineer with 3 years of experience in SoC performance/power modeling
- Strong grasp of the computer architecture fundamentals especially in the areas of interconnects, traffic QoS, distributed caches, coherency flows, DRAM controller and IO (PCIe) flows
- Proficient in C++ and Perl / Python
- Exposure to performance analysis and debug
- Ability to independently identify, troubleshoot and solve performance problems
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
- 2+ years of experience in one or more system architecture technology areas and products (e.g., Power System, Shared Resource Management, Limits/Thermal Management, Hardware Islands).
- MS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineer with 6 years of experience in CPU / SoC performance/power modeling, analysis / debug
- Expertise in one or more of these functional areas:
- Coherent fabrics based on the AMBA CHI / AXI protocol
- Memory controller designs for LPDDR5, DDR5
- IO controllers and fabric bridges for PCIe / CXL / CCIX
- Strong background in building fast, accurate SoC / CPU performance models C++
- Exposure to testing and debugging performance issues in pre- and post-silicon environments
- Demonstrable experience in productizing features that improve performance/power characteristics of a design
- Develop a SoC performance/power model for blocks such as interconnect NoCs, distributed system caches, memory controllers, IO controllers
- Verify model correctness by writing unit-tests and debugging mismatches against expectations
- Identify ideas for improving the SoC’s performance/power characteristics. Prototype the idea in the performance/power model and thoroughly characterize it
- Work with architects and RTL developers to productize the improvements identified through detailed studies
- Conduct RTL performance verification. This will involve creation of verification plans and directed tests / checkers
EEO Employer: 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.
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
$242,300.00 - $363,500.00
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. 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.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
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