Company:
Qualcomm India Private Limited
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering
General Summary:
Seeking an experienced SoC Power Architect to drive power-efficient architectures for next-generation SoCs. The role focuses on optimizing & exploring new features to optimize dynamic power , Vmin reduction, leakage power , use case energy footprint across SOC infra , CLK tree power, power modelling including lab characterization of SOC infra energy impacts & residency profiles of use-cases, data analysis

Key Responsibilities
• Exploring new SoC-level power architecture & optimization features, architecture dependencies with different IP blocks. Driving cross-functional technical evaluations of new features across multiple stakeholders

• Energy & latency sensitivity study of dynamic power reduction techniques DVFS, clock gating, power gating, Micro/Macro power collapse periods

• Analyze and optimize Vmin margins, power-performance tradeoffs, and silicon robustness.





• SOC infrastructure power optimization techniques by studying infra utilization based on use-case profiles ,

• Island use-cases flows, constraints in micro & macro -idle power optimization techniques,

• Drive leakage reduction and low-power design techniques across advanced process nodes.

• Evaluate efficient techniques to manage voltage droops, overshoots, thermal & electrical limits

• Handson experience in developing MATLAB models to quantify PPA KPI of power architecture features

• SPICE simulations to backup SOC/System level architecture features heling optimize Voltage droops, overshoots agile load-line management

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or related field.

• 8+ years of experience in SoC Power Architecture, Energy Management & Low-Power Design.

• Strong expertise in:
• Dynamic Power Optimization

• Vmin Analysis and Margining

• Leakage Power Reduction

• Low-Power Design Techniques

• PDN/Power I

📌 Staff Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Qualcomm
📍 Bengaluru