CPU Performance & Power Analysis Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > SoC Architecture

General Summary:

As a CPU Performance and Power Analysis Engineer, you will be working on CPU performance and power characterization and conducting competitive analysis using industry standard benchmarks and workloads. Your responsibilities lie primarily in the physical interaction with devices to enable measurement and data collection.

Required for this role:

• Solid foundation in OS fundamentals related to DVFS mechanisms
• Strong scripting skills -- Bash / Powershell / Python
• Soldering and physical modification of device power paths for measurement
• DAQ experience and fundamentals

• Fundamentals in PCB design and prototyping
• Experience with DAQ automation and custom tool enablement
• Experience with hardware performance counter and binary instrumentation tools
• Experience with characterizing industry standard benchmarks (CPU2017, Geekbench, SpecJBB, AnTuTu).
• Experience in Linux kernel internals / system programming
• Fundamentals and experience in understanding thermal behavior of devices
• Knowledge of the competitive landscape, feature specifications and industry trends in the server and client domain

• Tasked with acquiring competitive platforms and physically modifying them to physically measure and collect power data across mobile, compute, and server competitive devices
• Respond to requests to measure CPU power-performance data for various workloads and benchmarks
• Build an independent and efficient methodology to enable your work
• Present the power-performance data in a concise manner

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

• 2+ years of experience in one or more system architecture technology areas and products (e.g., Power System, Shared Resource Management, Limits/Thermal Management, Hardware Islands).

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