CPU Performance Engineer, Entry Level up to Staff
Qualcomm · Hsinchu, Taiwan
About this role
Qualcomm is hiring a junior-level Database Engineer in the data engineering function based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The posting calls out experience with C, Embedded Systems and roughly 2+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a master's degree or equivalent.
- Role
- Database Engineer
- Function
- data engineering
- Level
- junior
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Location
- Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Education
- Master's degree
- Posted
- Apr 27, 2026
Job description
from Qualcomm careers##
Company:
Qualcomm Semiconductor Limited
## Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering
General Summary:
The Potential Areas To Work Include
* The main responsibility of this position is to do the performance analysis for world-class snapdragon CPU subsystem for mobile and portable computers.
Minimum Qualifications
* Master's, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, emphasizing on computer architecture
* Good knowledge on in-order/out-of-order CPU microarchitecture and architecture
* Good knowledge on ARM bus protocol
* Good knowledge on DDR subsystem
* Good in C/C++ and scripting programming
* Hands-on experience on performance analysis and validation works
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience in benchmark workload characterization and performance bottleneck analysis
* Hands-on experience with performance verification on simulator or emulator
* Familiar with ARMv8/v9 architecture
* Knowledge of OS, firmware and software stacks
* Familiar with GCC/LLVM compilation flow
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
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