Qualcomm
Senior SoC Performance Architect
$209K–$314K
Santa Clara, California +3 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, California
Austin, Texas
Oregon - Remote
San Diego, California - Experience
- The posting states 5+ years of industry experience in CPU performance modeling and analysis; minimum qualifications also specify 6+ years with a bachelor's, 5+ years with a master's, or 4+ years with a PhD in Systems Engineering or related work, plus 2+ years in a system architecture technology area.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field is stated in the qualifications. Minimum qualifications alternatively accept a bachelor's degree with 6+ years, a master's degree with 5+ years, or a PhD with 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
About the job
Leads server SoC workload analysis, performance modeling, competitive projections, and cross-stack optimization to guide architecture and product decisions.
What you'll do
- Enable and analyze complex server workloads on pre- and post-silicon platforms; identify performance bottlenecks across the system.
- Build performance models, projections, and sensitivity studies for internal and competitive products.
- Drive hardware and software optimization recommendations and communicate findings to technical and executive audiences.
What they ask for
- Deep knowledge of CPU microarchitecture and SoC architecture, including memory, fabric, coherency, and I/O.
- Strong understanding of operating systems and compilers and their effects on performance.
- Hands-on experience with performance analysis tools, server workload analysis, and Linux-based workload debugging.
- Strong analytical, scripting, and data analysis skills; ability to influence cross-functional teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with pre-silicon performance modeling, simulation, or trace-based analysis.
- Experience with server workloads, competitive analysis, PMU-based analysis, or firmware and system tuning.
Pay
$209,300.00 - $313,900.00 (pay range; salary)
Tools
Linux, PMU, SMT, DRAM, BIOS
AI focus
Analysis of server workloads spanning AI infrastructure is listed as preferred experience; no AI development work is specified.
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