Engineer, SoC Performance

About the Role

Qualcomm's Multimedia System Performance team is responsible for system-level performance validation, analysis, and optimization across compute and mobile SoCs. The Engineer will work on pre-silicon and post-silicon platforms to validate multimedia use cases, analyze system performance metrics, debug bottlenecks, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure performance goals are achieved.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform system-level performance validation and analysis on pre-silicon (RUMI, emulation, simulation) and post-silicon platforms.
• Develop and execute multimedia and system-level performance workloads, test vectors, and concurrency use cases.
• Collect, analyze, and debug performance metrics including bandwidth, latency, throughput, and QoS indicators.
• Investigate performance bottlenecks across multimedia IPs, SMMU, cache, NoC, memory controller, DDR, power, and software domains.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Design, DV, Software, Power, and Multimedia teams to drive issue resolution and performance optimization.
• Contribute to automation, performance sign-off activities, technical reviews, and project deliverables.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Master's/Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Strong analytical and system-level debugging skills.
• Good programming skills in C and familiarity with Python/Shell scripting.
• Understanding of Linux/Android OS fundamentals, scheduling, memory management, and kernel concepts.
• Basic understanding of SoC architecture, memory hierarchy, interconnects (NoC), and performance analysis.

Qualifications

• Experience with pre-silicon platforms such as RUMI, emulation, FPGA, or simulation environments.
• Exposure to multimedia subsystems including Display, Video, Camera, or Graphics.
• Familiarity with performance profiling tools, counters, traces, and workload analysis.
• Experience debugging system-level performance issues in mobile or compute SoCs.