2 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$109k - $164k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to foundational modem and compute architecture initiatives influencing future Qualcomm products.
- Develop innovations in memory architecture, performance optimization, cache compression/decompression, power/performance/area efficiency, reliability, security, and scalability.
- Define and evaluate SoC-level latency, throughput, and bandwidth requirements and assess architectural trade-offs.
- Participate in pre-silicon performance evaluation, architectural exploration, and performance sign-off.
- Analyze modem workloads and implement solutions involving software optimization, task design, software/hardware partitioning, cache utilization, and memory behavior.
- Apply data-driven analysis and traditional machine learning techniques to large performance datasets.
- Develop and maintain tools for silicon profiling, performance validation, and debugging.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong computer architecture fundamentals covering processors, memory systems, embedded real-time systems, operating systems, and low-level programming.
- Experience delivering measurable code-performance improvements through architectural redesign, compiler optimization, hardware acceleration, or multithreading.
- Experience with embedded software development using C/C++ or assembly language, RTOS schedulers, and kernel modules.
- Strong programming skills in C or C++ and Python.
- Preferred: master’s degree in a relevant engineering or computer science field.
- Preferred: up to five years of cumulative relevant work experience and experience analyzing or optimizing embedded-system performance.
- Preferred: Python tooling, data analysis, ML frameworks such as PyTorch, automation, JTAG debugging, compiler technology, low-level performance tuning, SoC architecture, wireless technologies, traditional machine learning, or generative AI.
- Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- Annual base pay range of $109,400.00–$164,200.00; additional compensation details are discussed separately by the recruiter.
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.