Hiring: Senior SoC Performance Architect Company: Qualcomm Location: San Diego, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-02 18:01:55 Target Skills & Keywords : SOC About the job Experience: •5+ years of industry experience in CPU performance modeling and analysis. Required Skills: •Drive workload-based performance analysis for server SoCs, with emphasis on CPU-intensive and system-level workloads. •Enable, run, and characterize complex server workloads on pre-silicon and post-silicon platforms. •Perform detailed bottleneck analysis across CPU cores, caches, memory hierarchy, on-chip fabric, memory controllers, and I/O subsystems. •Build analytical and empirical models for workload behavior, performance scaling, and feature sensitivity. •Develop performance projections for internal products and competitive external products. •Conduct sensitivity studies to hardware and software parameters such as frequency, cache size, memory latency/bandwidth, prefetch behavior, SMT, compiler options, scheduling, and system configuration. •Identify optimization opportunities across both hardware and software, and drive recommendations to architecture, design, compiler, OS, firmware, and application teams. •Partner closely with hardware and software organizations to root-cause performance gaps and drive cross-functional optimization plans. •Define methodologies, metrics, and KPI frameworks for workload analysis, performance tracking, and feature evaluation. •Use profiling and performance monitoring tools to collect PMU data, hotspot profiles, call stacks, CPI breakdowns, memory behavior, and microarchitectural stall analysis. •Summarize findings for technical and executive audiences, including architecture tradeoffs, product implications, and competitive positioning. Qualifications: •PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, with 5+ years of industry experience in CPU performance modeling and analysis. •Deep understanding of CPU microarchitecture, including pipelines, OoO execution, branch prediction, caches, prefetching, SMT, and performance bottlenecks. •Strong knowledge of SoC-level architecture, including on-chip fabric/interconnect, memory controllers, DRAM systems, coherency, and I/O subsystems. •Deep understanding of operating systems and compilers, including scheduling, memory management, synchronization, code generation, optimization behavior, and runtime effects on performance. •Hands-on experience with industry standard performance analysis tools. •Strong experience in workload analysis, performance characterization, mo Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!