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This is a systems architecture role, not a narrowly scoped circuit-power or physical-design position.\nThe successful candidate will define and assess system power states, power islands, operating points, workload scenarios, data movement, shared-resource policies, and power-performance-thermal trade-offs. The role will establish traceability from product use cases and architecture assumptions through pre-silicon estimates, design evidence, post-silicon measurements, correlation, and next-generation improvements.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead system power architecture for target SoCs and platforms from concept development through architecture freeze, design convergence, pre-silicon readiness, post-silicon characterization, and learning closure.\nTranslate product requirements, use cases, workload behavior, concurrency, duty cycles, thermal constraints, and performance KPIs into system-level power requirements and architecture decisions.\nDefine and analyze system power states, power islands, retention strategies, clock- and power-gating behavior, wake/sleep flows, operating points, DVFS policies, and cross-IP power-management interactions.\nEstablish top-down system power budgets and projections and work with IP teams to decompose targets, assumptions, modes, activity profiles, and optimization requirements.\nDevelop or guide workload-driven analytical, simulation, empirical, or hybrid models for power and performance projection.\nEvaluate architectural options across power, performance, thermal behavior, area, latency, responsiveness, complexity, risk, and user-experience objectives.\nPerform workload, use-case, concurrency, utilization, traffic, and data-movement analysis to identify system-level optimization opportunities.\nDrive cross-IP power optimization involving compute, memory, interconnect, multimedia, connectivity, peripherals, system infrastructure, firmware, and software policies.\nTrack gaps between targets and projections; lead technical investigations, root-cause analysis, mitigation planning, risk assessment, and issue closure.\nIntegrate IP-level models and implementation evidence into coherent system projections while making assumptions, model fidelity, uncertainty, and confidence ranges explicit.\nDefine architecture validation and measurement requirements so that pre-silicon hypotheses can be verified on emulation, prototypes, boards, and production silicon.\nCorrelate pre-silicon models and estimates with post-silicon rail, workload, telemetry, and performance measurements; explain material variances and feed calibrated models and architecture actions into subsequent products.\nPartner with SoC architecture, performance/modeling, IP architecture, RTL design, DV, physical design, firmware, software, thermal, validation, lab, and silicon teams.\nCommunicate system power status, trade-offs, risks, recommendations, and closure plans to technical and program stakeholders.\nDevelop reusable power-architecture methods, workload definitions, model standards, projection practices, dashboards, and review criteria.\nMinimum/Basic Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field and 10+ years of Systems Engineering, SoC Architecture, Power Architecture, Performance/Power Analysis, or related experience; or\nMaster’s degree in a related field and 8+ years of relevant experience; or\nPhD in a related field and 5+ years of relevant experience.\nApproximately 10+ years of relevant industry experience is preferred.\nStrong understanding of SoC and computer architecture, including compute subsystems, memory hierarchy, interconnects, system infrastructure, I/O, clock/reset, and HW/SW interaction.\nExperience in system power architecture, workload-based power analysis, power-performance analysis, system modeling, projection, optimization, or post-silicon power characterization.\nAbility to reason about dynamic and leakage power, operating modes, utilization, duty cycle, voltage/frequency operating points, concurrency, and thermal or sustained-performance effects.\nDemonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical investigations and convert analysis into architecture or optimization decisions.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, technical-communication, and stakeholder-leadership skills.\nPreferred Qualifications and Domain Expertise\nExperience defining SoC or subsystem power states, islands, low-power modes, sleep/idle behavior, wake-up paths, retention, power gating, clock gating, or DVFS.\nExperience with representative CPU, GPU, DSP, NPU/AI, memory, interconnect, multimedia, connectivity, peripheral, or full-platform workloads.\nHands-on experience with power/performance modeling, sensitivity analysis, projection, workload characterization, trace analysis, scripting, or large-data analysis.\nExperience correlating architecture models and pre-silicon estimates with post-silicon measurements and driving variance root cause and model calibration.\nFamiliarity with rail-level power measurements, silicon telemetry, performance counters, profiling, lab measurement methods, board bring-up, or system debugging.\nWorking knowledge of RTL/gate-level power inputs, activity factors, leakage/dynamic splits, corners, implementation data, or power-estimation tools.\nAwareness of UPF/CPF, power-domain crossings, isolation, level shifting, retention, structural low-power verification, synthesis, timing, or physical-design power considerations.\nUnderstanding of PMICs, regulators, power rails, PDN/power-grid considerations, thermal management, and their relationship to SoC operating policy.\nFamiliarity with Linux/Android, firmware, device drivers, system traces, power-management software, or Python/shell-based automation.\nPrior SoC architecture, subsystem architecture, IP microarchitecture, design, validation, or silicon-debug experience.\nDemonstrated technical leadership across distributed teams, including the ability to align stakeholders and influence decisions without direct authority.\nMinimum Qualifications:\n• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.OR\nMaster's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.\nOR\nPhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.\nApplicants: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail  or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).\nQualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.\nTo all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies:Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. 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