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# SoC Performance Architect

- **Company:** Qualcomm
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $148,300.0 - $222,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Unit Testing, C++ (Programming Language), Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Dynamic Random-Access Memory, Perl (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), PCI Express, Systems Architecture, Performance Testing, Caching, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=78702d66bf3e071d

## About the Role

* 2+ years of experience in SoC performance/power modeling

 * Strong grasp of the computer architecture fundamentals especially in the areas of interconnects, traffic QoS, distributed caches, coherency flows, DRAM controller and IO (PCIe) flows

 * Proficient in C++ and Perl / Python

 * Exposure to performance analysis and debug

 * Ability to independently identify, troubleshoot and solve performance problems

Preferred qualifications

 * 4 years of experience in CPU / SoC performance/power modeling, Performance Validation

 * Proficient in IP/SoC level performance validation between RTL and performance models,

 * Expertise in analyzing and debugging performance shortfalls in RTL environment

 * Exposure to testing and debugging performance issues post-silicon environments

 * Demonstrable experience in productizing features that improve performance/power characteristics of a design, * Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience., Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

 * 2+ years of experience in one or more system architecture technology areas and products (e.g., Power System, Shared Resource Management, Limits/Thermal Management, Hardware Islands).

## Description

As a SoC Performance Architect, you will create performance and power models for the fabric NoC / DRAM controller / IO blocks for server-class SoCs, correlate models against RTL behavior, prototype ideas and help productize performance/power features for future SoC designs., * Conduct RTL performance verification. This will involve creation of verification plans and directed tests / checkers

 * Develop a SoC performance/power model for blocks such as interconnect NoCs, distributed system caches, memory controllers, IO controllers

 * Verify model correctness by writing unit-tests and debugging mismatches against expectations

 * Identify ideas for improving the SoC's performance/power characteristics. Prototype idea in the performance/power model and thoroughly characterize it

 * Work with architects and RTL developers to productize the improvements identified through detailed studies


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