Qualcomm
Principal Power Systems Engineer: Snapdragon Compute Chipsets
$217K–$325K
San Diego, California +2 · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, California
Austin, Texas
Santa Clara, California - Experience
- A minimum of 10 years of professional experience in one or more of the listed areas is preferred.
- Education
- A Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field is required as a minimum.
About the job
Leads cross-functional efforts to model and optimize power across Snapdragon compute chipsets, systems, and platforms throughout product design and development.
What you'll do
- Perform power architecture, tradeoff analysis, modeling, analysis, and optimization for SoCs, chipsets, and platform solutions.
- Identify power requirements and risks, guide teams toward power targets, and optimize power efficiency and performance in current and future designs.
- Design power features, model customer-specific use cases, and work with cross-functional teams and customers on power requirements.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field.
- Minimum 10 years of professional experience in one or more of the listed areas is preferred.
Nice to have
- Experience in low-power features, processor or mobile/compute architecture, mobile SoC or chipset systems, low-power hardware/software design, or system-level power modeling.
- Understanding of machine learning networks for compute applications.
Pay
$216,600.00 - $325,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Snapdragon Compute Chipsets, SOC, chipset, platform, application processor, modem processor, AR/XR, machine learning
AI focus
Understanding machine learning networks for compute applications is listed among preferred experience areas; the role also optimizes power for machine-learning-capable compute products.
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