Staff Thermal Limits Engineer
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Systems Engineering
In short
Qualcomm is looking for a Staff Thermal Limits Engineer in San Diego, CA. This role involves researching, designing, and validating systems-level solutions with a focus on thermal and electrical requirements, particularly for the server business unit. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize power, performance, and thermal behavior of Qualcomm chipsets.
Responsibilities
- Identify sustained and transient thermal and electrical requirements and lead investigations around limits management hardware architectures and protection mechanisms.
- Define and develop next generation thermal and limits management strategies for Qualcomm products, with a priority on server business unit needs.
- Define and conduct thermal and limit systems testing and validation on silicon and system-level platforms.
- Work closely with power and performance teams to optimize thermal and power trade-offs.
- Define and document thermal, performance and power analysis plans and updates for system use-cases across multiple workloads (CPU, GPU, AI/ML) as well as concurrent scenarios.
- Identify areas of performance optimization in the SoC for both Software and Hardware architectures.
- Direct triage of complex performance issues to determine root-cause and present results to internal and external stakeholders.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product management, hardware, and software engineering, etc.) to implement optimal power, performance, and thermal solutions.
- Provide technical management, mentor and guide engineers to successfully execute multiple programs.
- Plan tasks, prioritize activities and track progress.
- Define and develop automation and leverage generative AI tools for the team to operate more efficiently.
- Prepare clear and concise reports and recommendations for product teams up to senior executives to help drive business decisions and next generation architecture choices.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Engineering
- 10+ years of practical post-silicon experience of power and performance analysis of complex SoCs
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Self-starter and able to work independently.
- Experience with industry power and performance benchmarks along with system interaction and dependencies
- Working experience in computer hardware and architecture
- Experience working with server thermal and/or electrical requirements
- Understanding of memory hierarchy, and system interconnects
- Understanding of ARM SoC concepts and architecture specifications like SMMU, GIC, Coresight-PMU, and various bus interface protocols
- Knowledge and experience in ARM v8 and v9 specifications
- Understanding of system power/performance analysis tools and techniques
- Knowledge of SW Power management stacks and scheduler behavior
- Strong programming and scripting skills (Python, C/C++)
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants
- Highly competitive benefits package designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play.
#System Engineering#PPT Systems Engineering#Thermal Management#Electrical Requirements#Performance Optimization#SoC#Server Business Unit#AI/ML
Company
Qualcomm
Job Posted
1 month ago
Employment Type
Full Time
WorkMode
On Site
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
San Diego, United States of America
Qualification
Master
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