Qualcomm
Performance Engineer, Staff
$160K–$240K
Austin, Texas · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years with a bachelor’s degree, 3+ years with a master’s degree, or 2+ years with a PhD in relevant work; also requires 2+ years with high-performance microprocessor design.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Investigates and resolves complex performance and reliability issues across embedded software, operating systems, firmware, drivers, and hardware, leading root-cause analysis and system optimization.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end investigations of critical customer, field, and development issues across software and hardware layers.
- Analyze crashes, performance bottlenecks, and real-time system behavior using debugging, profiling, tracing, and hardware tools.
- Develop debug methods and automation, mentor engineers, and influence system architectures to improve diagnosability.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 4+ years of relevant work experience; alternatively, a master’s degree and 3+ years, or a PhD and 2+ years.
- 2+ years of experience with high-performance microprocessor design.
- Extensive experience debugging embedded and real-time systems; expert knowledge of C/C++.
- Strong understanding of operating systems, RTOS internals, drivers, firmware, processor architecture, memory systems, interrupts, concurrency, and memory management.
Nice to have
- Experience with Qualcomm SoCs, DSPs, NPUs, or mobile computing platforms.
- Experience with listed operating systems, ARM architecture, performance or power optimization, silicon bring-up, debug tooling, or Python/scripting.
Pay
$160,200.00 - $240,200.00 (base salary)
Tools
C/C++, JTAG, Linux, Android, QNX, FreeRTOS, ThreadX, Zephyr
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