GPU Performance Engineer

Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > GPU ASICS Engineering

General Summary: Job Description

At Qualcomm, we believe in the power of technology. For decades, our innovations have transformed entire industries, improved billions of lives, and addressed many of society’s biggest challenges. With the world becoming increasingly connected, we have a tremendous opportunity to shape a better future. As an R&D engine that has revolutionized the way people connect, our approach to innovation is strategic and purposeful. We understand that the success of our business is fundamentally connected to the well-being of our world.

General Summary: Our mission is to ship the very best integrated GPUs in the world, putting Qualcomm in a position of graphics and compute leadership, in all its businesses. We are looking for passionate GPU performance modeling engineers that will help shape the architecture of future Adreno GPUs for Qualcomm Snapdragon compute platforms across smartphones, Windows PCs and Chromebooks, virtual reality and augmented reality devices, and automotive solutions. This role will be available across multiple locations - San Diego, Santa Clara and Austin and Boxborough and across all levels.

What You Will Be Doing : Develop performance models for Qualcomm’s family of GPUs with a strong focus on performance accuracy and SW engineering. Collaborate with architects on development of new GPU features and associated trade-off experiments across a wide range of GPU workloads in order to optimize performance, power and cost. Develop tests and micro-benchmarks to troubleshoot and validate the performance of the various GPU blocks including fixed function graphics pipelines, programmable shader processors and memory subsystem. Develop tools and scripts to improve performance data analysis and streamline workflows Key-qualifications:

• The team looks for wide range of level and experience, typically from 3 years to 20 years.
• Experience with GPU/CPU architecture and performance modeling.
• Strong C++ and Python programming skills.
• Exposure to graphics algorithms/concepts such as rasterization, programmable shading, texturing, etc highly desired.
• Programming experience in Graphics API such as OpenGL, Vulkan, Direct3D or CUDA is a plus
• Good communication and presentation skills and desire to work as a team player

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

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Pay Range and Other Compensation & Benefits : $195,200.00 - $292,800.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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