$155,400 - $233,200 USD yearly
Focus on power architecture, modeling, and optimization across Snapdragon chipsets.
Originally posted November 13, 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role leads cross-functional engineering efforts to model SoC and chipset power, optimizing hardware and software configurations for Snapdragon chipsets. You will participate across all design and development cycles to guide end-to-end power-efficient system design.
What you'll do
- Perform power architecture and tradeoff analysis across SoC, chipset, and platform solutions.
- Conduct chipset and system-level power modeling, analysis, and optimization.
- Identify power requirements, quantify power gaps, and evaluate technical risk areas.
- Design power features in coordination with systems, software, hardware, silicon process, and production test teams.
- Guide cross-functional groups through the design cycle to achieve defined project power targets.
- Interface with customers to assess power requirements and build power models for customer-specific use cases.
What you'll need
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field.
Nice to have
- 8 years of professional experience in 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 experience.
Skills: power architecture, power modeling, low power, chipset, tradeoff analysis
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First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 72-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
520
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Median days since first seen
72 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$228k
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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 (520 roles · 70 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 94 | 520 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 454 | 3629 · 122 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 66 d | 72 d (+6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $228k |
Skills observed across this category: power architecture, power modeling, low power, chipset, tradeoff analysis
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 92 open roles · median 73 d
- NVIDIA · 69 open roles · median 86 d
- AMD · 41 open roles · median 72 d
- Apple · 40 open roles · median 14 d
- Arm Holdings · 28 open roles · median 17 d
- Micron Technology · 21 open roles · median 113 d
How we counted: 520 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 70 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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.