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System Performance Engineer, Staff

Qualcomm

Location

San Diego, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

9/12/2026

Compensation

$155,400 - $233,200 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202698.1% approval-22% YoY
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Job description

As a System Performance Engineer at Qualcomm, you will play a crucial role in optimizing and validating performance for Qualcomm Snapdragon Chipsets across various business units. You will collaborate with software, hardware, and architecture teams to enhance power, performance, and thermal behavior of systems. This position also involves mentoring junior engineers and leading multiple projects. Your expertise will be essential in researching, simulating, and validating performance to ensure product requirements are met.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in Computer Engineering
  • 4+ years of practical post-silicon experience in power and performance analysis of complex SoCs
  • Strong programming and scripting skills in Python and C/C++
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Knowledgeable in state-of-the-art workloads including AI and LLM
  • Understanding of memory hierarchy and system interconnects
  • Understanding of ARM SoC concepts and architecture specifications
  • Experience with Vulkan, OpenGL, DX12, or CUDA
  • Knowledge of industry power and performance benchmarks

Responsibilities

  • Enable, profile and analyze complex concurrent system use-cases in emulation and software environments
  • Define and document performance and power analysis plans for system use-cases across multiple workloads
  • Identify areas of performance optimization in the SoC for both Software and Hardware architectures
  • Direct triage of complex performance issues to determine root-cause and present results to stakeholders
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement optimal power, performance, and thermal solutions
  • Provide technical leadership, mentor and guide engineers to successfully execute multiple programs
  • Prepare clear and concise reports and recommendations for product teams to drive business decisions
  • Define and develop automation for the team to operate more efficiently

Benefits

  • Qualcomm offers competitive compensation, annual bonuses, stock programs, comprehensive healthcare coverage, retirement plans, wellness programs, parental leave, flexible work options, and professional development opportunities.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Qualcomm Technologies Inc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

198

FY2026

Approval rate

98.1%

FY2026

LCA certified

59,278

FY2026

Entry-level share

0.0%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-22%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

+30%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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