Performance Validation Engineer
Qualcomm
Performance Benchmark
Location: Bangalore
Role Type: Engineer
Domain: ARMv9 Server Platforms, CPU Performance
Role Summary
Lead Qualcomm’s server CPU performance benchmarking and optimization efforts for next-generation ARMv9 platforms. Own performance strategy, guide a team of performance engineers, and drive end-to-end analysis across silicon, firmware, kernel, and workloads.
Leadership & Strategy
- Lead and mentor a team of performance engineers.
- Define performance KPIs, benchmarking strategy, and roadmap.
- Drive alignment across architecture, silicon, firmware, kernel, compiler, and workload teams.
Benchmarking & Characterization
- Lead SPEC CPU, SPECjbb, SPECrate, cloud workload analysis.
- Characterize CPU, memory, I/O, NUMA, ARMv9 features.
Regression & Monitoring
- Own regression detection and CI/CD automation.
- Track KPIs across firmware, software, and hardware.
Root Cause & Optimization
- Lead investigations using PMU counters, perf, VTune, Streamline.
- Guide kernel, BIOS/UEFI, compiler, SVE/SVE2 optimizations.
Customer & Partner Engagement
- Validate workloads for hyperscalers, Kubernetes, enterprise.
- Support OEM/ODM benchmarking and field issues.
Minimum Qualifications
- 1+ years in CPU performance engineering/system software.
- Strong Python, Bash, C/C++.
- Deep microarchitecture, memory, NUMA, PCIe/CXL understanding.
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