Senior Staff System Performance Engineer
Qualcomm
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This role pays less than 69% of similar roles. Most pay $143,975–$221,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $153k versus about $183k for comparable roles.
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Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company based in San Diego, CA.
Qualcomm currently has 623 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $148,300–$222,500 across 603 roles with salary data.
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As a System Performance Engineer, Senior, you will join the System Performance Team to optimize and validate performance for Snapdragon Chipsets across mobile, compute, automotive, IoT, server, and data center AI segments. You will serve as a technical lead, mentoring junior engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve power, performance, and thermal behavior. Your daily responsibilities include profiling complex concurrent system use-cases in Android, Linux, and Windows environments, defining analysis plans for CPU, GPU, and AI/ML workloads, and triaging root causes of performance issues. You will utilize Python, C/C++, and tools for Vulkan, OpenGL, DX12, or CUDA to analyze SoC architectures. The role requires expertise in ARM v8 and v9 specifications, memory hierarchies, system interconnects, and software power management stacks to solve critical hardware and software integration challenges.
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