Senior GPU Engineer
$133,600 - $200,400 USD yearly
Originally posted 15 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves architecting, designing, implementing, verifying, and optimizing the performance and power of GPU cores.
What you'll do
- Architect, design, implement, and verify GPU cores.
- Optimize the performance and power of GPU cores.
- Build functional modeling simulations.
- Develop software, tools, and tests for various graphics workloads.
- Run benchmarks for different applications.
- Perform pre- and post-silicon verification to ensure correctness and meet performance and power goals.
What you'll need
- Experience architecting GPU cores.
- Experience designing GPU cores.
- Experience implementing GPU cores.
- Experience verifying GPU cores.
- Experience optimizing GPU core performance.
- Experience optimizing GPU core power.
Skills: GPU cores, architecting, designing, implementing, verifying, performance and power optimization
This role has been open 28 days — well below the 63-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
|
Open roles in category
1013
|
Median days open
63 d
|
Median salary
$185k
|
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (1013 roles · 101 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 131 | 1013 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 364 | 3167 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 63 d | 63 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: GPU cores, architecting, designing, implementing, verifying, performance and power optimization
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 134 open roles · median 63 d
- Synopsys · 86 open roles · median 28 d
- AMD · 72 open roles · median 34 d
- Analog Devices · 49 open roles · median 46 d
- NVIDIA · 46 open roles · median 62 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 44 open roles · median 87 d
How we counted: 1013 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 101 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 Oct 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.
Similar Jobs
Career Accelerator Program - Systems Marketing Engineer (SEM) - A&D - Dallas, TX, United States
Texas Instruments · Dallas, TX, United States
Senior ATE Security Engineer, Amazon Leo Silicon Team - Sunnyvale, California, United States
Amazon · Sunnyvale, California, United States