CareerPlan

System Performance Engineer, Senior

San Diego, California, United States of AmericaFull-time$130k–$194k2026-11-03 → 2026-11-10

Core

Research, design, develop, simulate, and validate systems-level software, hardware, architecture, and algorithms to optimize power, performance, and thermal behavior of Qualcomm Snapdragon Chipsets.

Role type

Senior IC system performance engineer (SoC)

Builds

Snapdragon Chipsets for Mobile, Compute, Automotive, IoT, Server, and Data Center AI

Domain

Semiconductor / SoC Architecture / Power & Performance Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

SoC power and performance analysis, concurrent system profiling, root-cause analysis, automation development, ARM architecture (v8/v9), memory hierarchy, system interconnects, SW power management stacks, Python/C++ scripting

Preferred skills

Master's in Computer Engineering, 4+ years post-silicon experience, AI/LLM workloads, GPU APIs (Vulkan/OpenGL/DX12/CUDA), industry benchmarks