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versus about
$199k
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About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company based in San Diego, CA.
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Listed pay typically runs
$154,000–$231,000
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As a Lead CPU Performance Analysis Engineer at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., you will join a dedicated team focused on enhancing CPU performance through analysis and tuning. Your primary responsibilities include collecting and analyzing data for various workloads and benchmarks, developing micro-benchmarks to assess competitor CPUs, and creating predictive models for competitive performance. You will also develop tools to trace workloads and feed them into the CPU performance simulator, requiring strong scripting skills in Bash, Perl, or Python, proficiency in C/C++ and assembly language, and familiarity with hardware profiling tools like Vtune and perf. This role demands expertise in computer architecture, OS fundamentals, and experience with industry-standard benchmarks such as CPU2017 and GeekBench, making it ideal for those passionate about optimizing performance at the silicon level.