1 day ago
San Diego, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$100k - $149k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze software benchmarks and applications to identify performance optimization opportunities.
- Implement software optimizations that meet performance criteria without negatively affecting power consumption.
- Develop and enhance analysis tools and instrumentation to identify performance gaps and optimization options.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external partners on performance analysis and optimization.
- Identify risks associated with designs, approaches, and other work efforts.
- Solve complex technical problems affecting significant areas of software products.
- Make decisions amid incomplete, contradictory, and ambiguous requirements affecting multiple software development teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, information systems, computer science, or a related field.
- 2+ years of software engineering experience focused on power, performance, or related work.
- Experience with C/C++ and ARM assembly.
- Strong familiarity with ARM architecture and understanding of CPU, memory, and bus architecture.
- Experience with performance characterization and software optimization techniques.
- Ability to debug complex problems across hardware, operating system, compiler, and driver layers.
- Strong written, verbal communication, self-management, and collaboration skills.
- Master’s degree in engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field is preferred.
- Familiarity with C#, Java, JavaScript, and Python is a plus.
- Experience with Windows, Visual Studio, LLVM compiler, Windows Performance Analyzer tools, compiler and JIT technologies, and CPU software benchmarks is preferred or a plus.
Benefits
- Annual pay range of $99,500.00–$149,300.00.
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- This position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.
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About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a public semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, founded in 1985, that designs and sells wireless chipsets and platforms for mobile devices, automotive, IoT, and networking, notably the Snapdragon application processors and 5G modems. It also licenses a large portfolio of cellular patents to device makers, generating revenue alongside chip sales; its technology underpins many Android smartphones and emerging automotive and edge-compute systems, and it trades on NASDAQ as QCOM.