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# CPU Performance Analysis Engineer

- **Company:** Qualcomm
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $167,000 - $250,600
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Systems Engineering, Bash Shell, Compilers, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering, Linux, Perl (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), Memcached, Nginx, Performance Tuning, Redis, Systems Architecture, System Programming, Multithreading, Scripting, Information Technology
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/cpu-performance-analysis-engineer-santa-clara-ca--bc796ba3-97f1-4a56-b7ff-63c7ad8b2811

## About the Role

CPU (Central Processing Unit), Performance Analysis, CPU (Central Processing Unit), Industry Standards, Performance Analysis, Benchmarking, Competitive Analysis/Strategy, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Data Collection, Multithreaded Programming, * 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., 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)., * Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering / Science with 10+ years of relevant work experience
 * Experience with hardware performance profiling tools (such as Vtune, perf), binary instrumentation tools (such as DynamoRio, PIN)
 * Experience with characterizing industry standard benchmarks (e.g. CPU2017, GeekBench, AnTuTu, Speedometer) and workloads such as Memcached, NGINX, Redis, DCPerf
 * Experience in writing micro-benchmarks to measure performance characteristics of a CPU / SoC
 * Prior experience in developing trace collection tools and using same to trace workloads to feed the CPU performance simulators
 * Experience with CPU performance simulators / analytical models
 * Experience in OS internals (Windows / Linux / Android), system programming and Compilers (GCC, LLVM, JIT)
 * Knowledge of the competitive landscape, feature specifications and industry trends in the server and client domain

## Description

As a CPU Performance Analysis Engineer, you will be working on CPU performance analysis and tuning, projecting CPU roadmap performance, workload characterization and thread-level behavioral modeling, workload tracing, and performing competitive performance analysis using industry standard benchmarks and workloads.

Roles and Responsibilities

 * Collect CPU performance data for various workloads and benchmarks
 * Conduct detailed workload characterization on silicon and performance simulators
 * Profile workload execution and develop single-threaded and multi-threaded behavior models of industry standard benchmarks
 * Develop tools and techniques to project SOC benchmark performance using CPU performance simulator and analytical characterization models
 * Prepare benchmark projections for roadmap and competitive CPU / SOC comparison and analysis
 * Build competitive performance prediction models
 * Present the competitive performance data in a concise manner

Minimum Skills/Experience

 * Strong grasp of computer architecture and OS fundamentals
 * Strong scripting skills -- Bash / Perl / Python
 * Proficiency in C / C++ / x86, ARM compatible assembly language
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