Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Performance Benchmark Lead – Server CPU (3 to 12+ Years Experience)

Location: Bangalore

Role Type: Senior Technical Lead / Team Lead

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.

Key Responsibilities

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

12+ years in CPU performance engineering/system software.
Strong Python, Bash, C/C++.
Deep microarchitecture, memory, NUMA, PCIe/CXL understanding.
ARMv9/SVE/SVE2, virtualization, firmware experience.
Hands-on with SPEC suites, cloud-native benchmarks.
Leadership experience.

Ideal Attributes

Analytical, data-driven, solid debugging.
Effective cross-functional collaboration.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master'

📌 Performance Benchmark Engineer/Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Qualcomm
📍 Bengaluru