GPU Performance Verification Engineer - Cork, Ireland

Company: QT Technologies Ireland Limited Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering General Summary: About the Role We are hiring a GPU Performance Verification Engineer to join our team in Cork, focused on verifying and optimising the performance of next-generation Adreno GPUs—central to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platforms, including the flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite and Snapdragon X Elite. This role is pivotal in ensuring our GPUs deliver industry-leading performance across gaming, compute, and AI workloads, while maintaining power efficiency and architectural scalability. Why This Role Matters The Adreno GPU is a cornerstone of Qualcomm’s graphics innovation. With the launch of Snapdragon X Elite, Adreno entered the high-performance compute space, delivering up to 4.6 TFLOPS of GPU compute and supporting real-time ray tracing, 240 FPS mobile gaming, and AI-powered graphics enhancements The sliced architecture enables independent shader processor-based cores, improving concurrency and work distribution. In mobile, the newly launched Snapdragon 8 Elite—formerly known as Gen 4—marks a major leap forward. It integrates the 2nd Gen Qualcomm Oryon CPU and Adreno 830 GPU, delivering over 30% performance uplift compared to Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 . The platform supports Unreal Engine 5.3, Nanite, and Chaos Physics, enabling film-quality 3D environments and lifelike object interactions on smartphones AI Leadership in Adreno GPUs: Adreno GPUs are now tightly integrated with Qualcomm’s AI Engine, enabling real-time, on-device AI use cases across vision, language, and audio. The Snapdragon 8 Elite delivers up to 45% faster AI performance, supporting multi-modal GenAI workloads such as:

• Real-time semantic segmentation for camera enhancements.
• AI-powered ray tracing and denoising for immersive gaming.
• Low-latency translation and voice interaction on-device

We are hiring across multiple roles with new college grads and experienced candidates. What This Role involves: This role centers on verifying the performance of Adreno GPUs powering flagship Snapdragon platforms. You’ll work on:

• Identifying and resolving architectural bottlenecks in GPU pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with GPU Design and Architecture teams to understand graphics concepts, performance trade-offs and propose optimizations
• Evaluate and optimize advanced GPU features such as ray tracing, context switching, and AI acceleration to ensure peak performance and efficiency
• Driving performance closure using trending graphics, compute, and AI benchmarks and real-world scenarios.
• Leverage Python-based data analytics to extract insights from large-scale simulation and emulation datasets.
• Collaborating across hardware and software teams to optimize power, performance, and area (PPA).
• Ensure compatibility and performance of AAA games across current and next-gen gaming systems

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Electronics, or a related field Strong foundation in Computer ,GPU architecture, caches , memory subsystem etc Strong analytical skills Desirable:

• ASIC Design and/or Verification with a strong foundation in System Verilog/UVM.
• Experience with UVM-based verification environments desirable.
• Proficiency in any of the simulation or emulation platforms for design exploration and debug.
• 4+ years of overall experience in CPU/GPU/NPU domains(for experienced roles)
• Familiarity with simulation acceleration and emulation platforms.
• Experience in SW/HW partitioning and analyzing performance issues across the stack.
• Expertise in data visualization and analytics using Python.

Where you will be working Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.
There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.
A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes. Equal Opportunities
We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.

What's on Offer Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Matching pension scheme
• Education Assistance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being
• Bicycle purchase scheme
• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. *References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies. Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individ