Engineer/Senior Engineer- Ml Libraries/Arm
Qualcomm · Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 57d ago
Undisclosed2–7 yrsfulltimeSourced from
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As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Software Engineer, you will design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs that launch cutting-edge, world class products that meet and exceed customer needs. Qualcomm Software Engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces.
Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience
- Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience
- PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
We are building a high-impact team at the intersection of CPU architecture, machine learning workloads, and system-level performance optimization. This role focuses on CPU software-hardware co-design for next-generation QMX architectures, including workload characterization, simulation, kernel optimization, and driving architectural insights for future CPU designs. The ideal candidate will work across the full stack from ML models to low-level kernels to architectural feedback enabling efficient execution of ML workloads on CPU platforms.
Location: Bangalore (or relevant)
Key Responsibilities - ML Workload Identification Characterization
- Identify and prioritize critical ML use cases and models for CPU-centric execution (LLMs, vision, speech, recommender systems, etc.)
- Analyze workload characteristics including:
- Compute intensity
- Memory bandwidth and cache behavior
- Parallelism and dataflow patterns
- Simulation Trace Generation
- Generate detailed execution traces for ML workloads using QEMU or equivalent simulators
- Develop tooling to:
- Capture instruction-level execution behavior
- Extract performance counters and bottlenecks
- Enable accurate modeling of workload behavior for architectural exploration
- Bottleneck Analysis Performance Optimization
- Identify system bottlenecks across:
- CPU pipelines
- Memory hierarchy
- Instruction utilization
- Optimize critical hotspots through:
- Kernel-level tuning
- Algorithmic improvements
- Data layout and memory optimizations
- Drive measurable improvements in workload performance
- Identify system bottlenecks across:
- Software-Hardware Co-Design
- Collaborate with CPU architecture and design teams to:
- Provide data-driven insights from real workloads
- Identify inefficiencies and propose architectural enhancements
- Collaborate with CPU architecture and design teams to:
- Influence next-generation CPU features in:
- Compute units
- Vector/SIMD extensions (e.g., QMX)
- Memory subsystems
- ML Kernel Library Development (QMX Focus)
- Design and implement highly optimized ML kernels and libraries for QMX architecture
- Develop kernels for:
- GEMM, convolution, attention, activation functions, etc.
- Enable integration with:
- Open-source ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, ONNX, XNNPACK, MLAS)
- Apply advanced optimizations:
- SIMD/vectorization
- Cache-aware execution
- Parallel execution strategies
- Benchmarking Performance Engineering
- Optimize CPU-centric ML benchmarks such as:
- Geekbench AI
- Internal benchmarking suites
- Establish performance baselines and track improvements across hardware generations
- Perform competitive analysis and performance positioning
- Optimize CPU-centric ML benchmarks such as:
- Strong background in Computer Architecture / Systems Programming
- Strong background in Machine Learning fundamentals
- Proficiency in C/C++ (mandatory)
- Experience with Performance profiling, benchmarking, and optimization
- Experience with QEMU or equivalent simulators
- ML kernel development (GEMM, convolution, attention)
- Knowledge of CPU architecture (pipelines, caching, SIMD/vector extensions such as NEON, SVE, QMX)
- Familiarity with ML frameworks and inference stacks
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