CPU Performance Analysis Engineer
$167,000 - $250,600 USD yearly
Originally posted 26 June 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 2 November 2026.
About the role
As a CPU Performance Analysis Engineer, you will focus on CPU performance analysis and tuning, projecting CPU roadmap performance, workload characterization, thread-level behavioral modeling, workload tracing, and competitive performance analysis using industry standard benchmarks and workloads.
What you'll do
- 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 simulators and analytical characterization models.
- Prepare benchmark projections for roadmap and competitive CPU and SOC comparison and analysis.
- Build competitive performance prediction models and present competitive performance data.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 4+ years of systems engineering experience (or Master's with 3+ years, or PhD with 2+ years).
- 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).
- Strong grasp of computer architecture and OS fundamentals.
- Strong scripting skills in Bash, Perl, or Python.
- Proficiency in C, C++, or x86 and ARM compatible assembly language.
- Familiarity with CPU performance models.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering / Science with 10 years of relevant work experience.
- Experience with hardware performance profiling tools (such as VTune, perf) and binary instrumentation tools (such as DynamoRIO, PIN).
- Experience characterizing industry standard benchmarks (e.g., CPU2017, Geekbench, AnTuTu, Speedometer) and workloads such as Memcached, NGINX, Redis, and DCPerf.
- Experience in writing micro-benchmarks to measure performance characteristics of a CPU / SoC.
- Prior experience developing trace collection tools to trace workloads feeding CPU performance simulators.
- Experience with CPU performance simulators or analytical models, 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.
Skills: CPU performance data, workload characterization, performance simulators, computer architecture, SOC benchmark performance
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This role has been open 128 days — well above the 74-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
484
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Median days open
74 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$230k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (484 roles · 66 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 78 | 484 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 391 | 3370 · 114 employers |
| Median days open | 87 d | 74 d (+13 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $230k |
Skills observed across this category: CPU performance data, workload characterization, performance simulators, computer architecture, SOC benchmark performance
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 77 open roles · median 87 d
- NVIDIA · 62 open roles · median 75 d
- Apple · 48 open roles · median 22 d
- AMD · 39 open roles · median 62 d
- Arm Holdings · 30 open roles · median 5 d
- Micron Technology · 21 open roles · median 109 d
How we counted: 484 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 66 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 2 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.