01 / About
Full-Stack Hardware
My name is Sam Schiedermayer. I’m a GPU hardware engineer whose work has shipped in mobile, laptop, and automotive silicon.
Over the past five years I’ve worked on mobile software, computer vision, firmware, post-silicon validation, GPU microarchitecture, RTL, and synthesis. Working at every layer lets me follow a power or performance question to whichever layer actually decides it, and to make chip-level tradeoffs with the whole stack in view.
Today, I optimize power and performance for Qualcomm’s Adreno GPU, silicon that ships in Snapdragon mobile and laptop SoCs. I also build the AI-assisted flows the design team runs on: agents grounded in real synthesis data that flag high-ROI RTL and are beginning to implement optimizations autonomously.
- Based
- San Diego, California
- Shipped in
- Snapdragon GPUs · Tesla HW3 & HW4 Autopilot
- Focus
- AI-assisted design flows for GPU power & performance
- Resume
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- Elsewhere
- LinkedIn ↗
02 / Journey
Building Across Layers
I have had a long-running curiosity about computers and autonomous systems as long as I can remember. This has taken me from writing robotics software starting in middle school, down through every layer to logic gates in state of the art GPUs
03 / Current work
What I am Doing Now
04 / Contact