$129,500 - $194,300 USD yearly
Focuses on system-on-chip (SoC) performance analysis across mobile, automotive, and compute platforms.
Originally posted 6 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role focuses on system-on-chip (SoC) performance analysis to help define architectures across mobile, automotive, and compute platforms. You will evaluate performance, power, and thermal trade-offs across complex workloads such as gaming and AI.
What you'll do
- Lead and conduct performance and systems studies to define SoC architecture plans, taking into account performance, power, and thermal profiles.
- Define complex use cases including new gaming and AI workloads to infer systems requirements.
- Deploy simulators, profilers, and hardware platforms to diagnose performance bottlenecks and provide quantitative justification for architectural changes or tuning.
- Collaborate with hardware and software teams to define multimedia, modem, compute, and memory technologies.
- Apply computer architecture concepts spanning CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, cache coherency, and virtual memory.
- Identify technical solutions to architectural challenges and prepare disclosures for patent filings.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field (or an MS/PhD degree).
- 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
- Industry experience with computer architecture concepts, such as CPU, GPU, DSP, interconnects, and shared memory.
- Experience with SoC bus, interconnect, memory technologies, memory controllers, scheduling, and MMUs.
- Hands-on experience using and modifying simulators and performance/power models, especially full-system models.
- Experience with SystemC and event-driven simulators, as well as code and system profiling tools.
- Proficiency in C/C++ programming and pragmatic scripting and automation.
Skills: computer architecture, SystemC, performance modeling, profiling, SoC
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First seen in our index 6 days ago, well below the 73-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
512
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Median days since first seen
73 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$229k
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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 (512 roles · 70 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 91 | 512 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 441 | 3599 · 122 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 78 d | 73 d (−5 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: computer architecture, SystemC, performance modeling, profiling, SoC
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 85 open roles · median 87 d
- NVIDIA · 69 open roles · median 85 d
- AMD · 41 open roles · median 71 d
- Apple · 36 open roles · median 17 d
- Arm Holdings · 28 open roles · median 16 d
- Micron Technology · 21 open roles · median 112 d
How we counted: 512 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 70 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 13 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, and is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.