23 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaEntry Level / Mid Level / Senior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Execute and analyze SPEC CPU, SPECrate, SPECjbb, and cloud or microservice workloads on ARMv9 server platforms.
- Characterize CPU, cache, memory, NUMA, I/O, virtualization, and system-level behavior, and identify performance bottlenecks.
- Use PMU counters, profiling tools, traces, statistical analysis, and controlled experiments to investigate regressions and root causes.
- Define performance KPIs and automate regression detection across software, firmware, and hardware updates.
- Tune Linux kernel parameters, system configurations, benchmark settings, compiler flags, toolchains, and applicable code paths.
- Develop automated benchmarking frameworks, scalable testbeds, and data collection, visualization, and reporting pipelines.
- Validate performance for hyperscalers, Kubernetes, OEM/ODM, and enterprise workloads and support customer evaluations and field issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, information systems, computer science, or a related field with 2+ years of software engineering or related experience; alternatively, a master's degree with 1+ year of experience or a PhD in a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in performance engineering, system software, or related roles is listed in the qualifications.
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Strong proficiency in Python and Bash, with working knowledge of C/C++ in performance-critical environments.
- Familiarity with ARM-based server platforms, ARMv9 architecture, Linux systems and internals, virtualization, UEFI/BIOS, PCIe/CXL, NUMA, and SVE/SVE2.
- Hands-on experience running and analyzing SPEC CPU, SPECrate, and SPECjbb workloads.
- Experience with perf, VTune, ARM Streamline, TMA, Linux performance tuning, and basic statistical analysis.
- Strong understanding of CPU and system architecture, microarchitectural behavior, memory and platform architecture, benchmarking methodology, and performance analysis.
- Strong analytical, debugging, communication, collaboration, and data-driven problem-solving abilities.
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.