Sr. Staff Engineer – Power Lead, Systems Architecture

About the role

Sr. Staff Engineer – Power Lead, Systems Architecture at Qualcomm. Lead system power architecture for target SoCs and platforms from concept development through architecture freeze, design convergence, pre-silicon readiness.

What you'll do

• Lead system power architecture for target SoCs and platforms from concept development through architecture freeze, design convergence, pre-silicon readiness
• Translate product requirements, use cases, workload behavior, concurrency, duty cycles, thermal constraints
• Define and analyze system power states, power islands, retention strategies, clock- and power-gating behavior, wake/sleep flows, operating points, DVFS policies
• Establish top-down system power budgets and projections and work with IP teams to decompose targets, assumptions, modes, activity profiles, and optimization requirements
• Develop or guide workload-driven analytical, simulation, empirical, or hybrid models for power and performance projection

What you need

• 10–18 yrs of experience
• VLSI
• Python
• Calibration
• Linux
• Android
• Verilog
• B.Tech or B.E. or PhD or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech

Good to have

• Root cause analysis
• Prototyping