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The Thermal Limits Engineer, Senior Staff joins the System Performance Team to optimize power, performance, and thermal behavior for Snapdragon Chipsets across Server, Mobile, Automotive, and IOT business units. This role involves leading cross-functional collaboration to research, simulate, and validate systems-level hardware architectures and protection mechanisms. Key responsibilities include defining next-generation thermal management strategies, conducting silicon-level testing, and performing power and performance trade-off analyses for CPU, GPU, and AI/ML workloads. The position requires expertise in ARM v8 and v9 specifications, SMMU, GIC, and Coresight-PMU. Candidates must possess strong programming skills in Python and C/C++ to develop automation and leverage generative AI tools. The work focuses on solving complex thermal and electrical requirements while managing performance analysis for complex SoCs and system interconnects.