CareerPlan

SoC Systems Performance Engineer, Senior

San Diego, California, United States of AmericaFull-time$130k–$194k2026-11-06 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead performance and systems studies for next-generation SoC products, defining architecture plans balancing performance, power, and thermal while collaborating with HW/SW teams.

Role type

Senior IC SoC Systems Performance Engineer

Builds

Market-leading SoC products for mobile, automotive, and compute categories

Domain

Semiconductor / Computer Architecture

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Computer architecture (CPU, GPU, DSP, interconnects, cache coherency), SoC bus/interconnect/memory technologies, SystemC and event driven simulators, full-system performance/power models, C/C++ programming, pragmatic scripting & automation, VLSI design and verification

Preferred skills

OS principles and HW/SW interaction, multimedia/communication technologies (audio/video codec, camera, WLAN, LTE, 5G), ARM and Linux familiarity, patent filing

Technologies

SystemC, event driven simulators, simulators, profilers, hardware, C/C++, ARM, Linux

Responsibilities

Engineer market-leading SoC products with best-in-class performance, Lead and conduct performance and systems studies, Conduct analysis to define SoC architecture plans taking into account performance, power and thermal, Collaborate with HW and SW teams to define best-in-class multimedia, modem, compute and memory technologies, Define complex use cases including new workloads (Gaming, AI) and infer systems requirements, Deploy simulators, profilers, or hardware to understand performance bottlenecks and provide quantitative justification for architectural changes or tuning

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC