Power Analysis & Optimization

Company:Qualcomm India Private LimitedJob Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Job Overview:

Qualcomm Snapdragon SOC’s long battery life is built on industry leading power management architectures. As a member of the APPS Power Optimization Team you will contribute to the optimization of power consumed of various test cases for upcoming Snapdragon SoCs designed for mobile, IoT, Wear, AR/VR and modem products. You will work with engineers across a range of disciplines (e.g. hardware, software and systems) and technologies (e.g. advanced CPUs, Hexagon DSPs, Adreno GPUs, IoT, AR/VR, ML/AI, Wireless LAN, GPS, low power audio, and low power sensors).

Job Responsibilities:

• Debug and Analyze the high power issues in APPS SW.
• Find solutions to system level power and resource management problems.
• Influence the hardware design to improve power consumption or simplify the power.
• Conduct hands-on performance, power, and/or thermal studies to help optimize the SW power;
• Effectively communicate experimental results, review with technical leads and peers, analyze outstanding issues;
• Work with software teams, who implement modules that are clients of the power and resource management software, to gather requirements and provide guidance.
• Work with software teams to identify and fix performance bottlenecks that increase power consumption.
• Design tools to identify and debug power consumption issues on development platforms and commercial devices
• Invent and file patents on technical solutions to relevant problems;

Preferred Qualification:

• 1 to 3 yrs experience in embedded software development and preferably on mobile or IoT devices
• Experience in programming with at least one programming language like C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• Ability to approach problems at a system level - One or more of the following: - Device driver or board support package (BSP) knowledge or development experience - Experience with Linux - Understanding of ARM processor architectures - Experience with power optimization
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Experience in using debug tools like JTAG debugger, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers
• Excellent problem solving skills.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

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