Soc performance Engineer

About the Company

Performance Benchmark Lead – Server CPU

Location: Bangalore

Role Type: Senior Engineer/Staff Engineer

Domain: ARMv9 Server Platforms, CPU Performance

About the Role

Lead Qualcomm's server CPU performance benchmarking and optimization efforts for next-generation ARMv9 platforms. Own performance strategy, guide a team of performance engineers, and drive end-to-end analysis across silicon, firmware, kernel, and workloads.

Responsibilities

• Benchmarking & Characterization
• Lead SPEC CPU, SPECjbb, SPECrate, cloud workload analysis.
• Characterize CPU, memory, I/O, NUMA, ARMv9 features.
• Regression & Monitoring
• Own regression detection and CI/CD automation.
• Track KPIs across firmware, software, and hardware.
• Root Cause & Optimization
• Lead investigations using PMU counters, perf, VTune, Streamline.
• Guide kernel, BIOS/UEFI, compiler, SVE/SVE2 optimizations.
• Customer & Partner Engagement
• Validate workloads for hyperscalers, Kubernetes, enterprise.
• Support OEM/ODM benchmarking and field issues.

Qualifications

• 3 to13 years in CPU performance engineering/system software.
• Strong Python, Bash, C/C++.
• Deep microarchitecture, memory, NUMA, PCIe/CXL understanding.
• ARMv9/SVE/SVE2, virtualization, firmware experience.
• Hands-on with SPEC suites, cloud-native benchmarks.
• Leadership experience.

Required Skills

• Analytical, data-driven, strong debugging.
• Effective cross-functional collaboration.