Qualcomm
Systems Engineer - Chipset Power, Senior Staff
$187K–$280K
San Diego, California +2 · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, California
Austin, Texas
Santa Clara, California - Experience
- 15 years of professional experience in one or more listed areas is preferred; no required minimum stated.
- Education
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field.
About the job
Leads cross-functional efforts to model, analyze, and optimize power consumption in Snapdragon chipsets and end-to-end platform solutions throughout the design and development cycle.
What you'll do
- Perform power architecture and tradeoff analysis, including chipset and system-level modeling and optimization.
- Identify power requirements and gaps, optimize current designs, and guide teams in achieving power targets and architecting future products.
- Design power features and work with cross-functional teams and customers on power requirements and use cases.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field.
- 15 years of professional experience in one or more listed areas is preferred.
Nice to have
- Experience analyzing or designing low-power features at the SoC, chipset, or platform level; system-level power modeling and analysis.
- Architectural knowledge of application processors, modem processors, AR/VR, machine learning, IoT, automotive, or computing; hardware or software low-power design or optimization.
Pay
$186,700.00 - $280,100.00 USD (base salary)
Tools
Snapdragon
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