Systems Engineer - Chipset Power, Senior Staff - San Diego, California, United States of America
$179,000 - $268,400 USD yearly
Originally posted 28 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Senior Staff Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for defining and optimizing power for Snapdragon chipsets. This role involves guiding the power-efficient design of end-to-end solutions.
What you'll do
- Lead a cross-functional engineering team to model SOC/chipset power.
- Develop innovative solutions to optimize hardware and software to enhance SOC and chipset.
- Perform power architecture and tradeoff analysis.
- Conduct chipset and system-level power modeling, analysis, and optimization for SOC, chipset, and platform solutions.
- Identify power requirements and quantify power gap/risk areas.
- Guide multi-function groups through the design cycle to achieve power targets.
What you'll need
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field.
- 15 years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas: analysis and design of low power features at SOC, chipset, or platform level.
- Architectural knowledge in application processor, modem processor, AR/VR, machine learning, IOT, automotive, or computing.
- Hardware or software design or optimizations of low power features.
- System-level power modeling and analysis.
Skills: power architecture, chipset power modeling, SOC, systems engineer, low power features
This role has been open 81 days — slightly above the 79-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
472
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Median days open
79 d
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Median salary
$238k
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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 (472 roles · 65 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 73 | 472 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 381 | 3201 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 88 d | 79 d (+9 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $238k |
Skills observed across this category: power architecture, chipset power modeling, SOC, systems engineer, low power features
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 73 open roles · median 88 d
- NVIDIA · 56 open roles · median 71 d
- Apple · 36 open roles · median 12 d
- AMD · 34 open roles · median 60 d
- Arm Holdings · 27 open roles · median 115 d
- Micron Technology · 22 open roles · median 107 d
How we counted: 472 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 65 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 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.