CPU Physical Design Engineer

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary:

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 Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:
"¢ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.

We are looking for bright ASIC design engineers with excellent analytical and technical skills. This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a fast paced team responsible for delivering Snapdragon CPU design, flows for high performance SoCs in sub-10nm process for Mobile, Compute and IOT market space.

Job Responsibilities:

Participate on a project involved in the development of ASICs, with emphasis in Place and Route Implementation, Timing Closure, Low Power, Power Analysis and Physical Verification.

Create design of experiments and do detailed PPA comparison analysis to improve quality of results, tuning recipes and setting course for the projects going forward

Work closely with RTL design, Synthesis, low power, Thermal, Power analysis and Power estimation teams to optimize Performance, Power and Area(PPA)

Tabulate metrics results for analysis comparison

Develop Place & Route recipes for optimal PPA

Minimum Qualifications

·2+ years of High Performance core Place & Route and ASIC design Implementation work experience

Preferred Qualifications

Minimum 3+ years of experience in PD

Extensive experience in Place & Route with FC or Innovus is an absolute must

Complete ASIC flow with low power, performance and area optimization techniques

Experience with STA using Primetime and/or Tempus is required

Proficient in constraint generation and validation

Experience of multiple power domain implementation with complex UPF/CPF definition required

Formal verification experience (Formality/Conformal)

Perl/Tcl, Python, C++ skills are needed

Strong problem solving and ASIC development/debugging skills

Experience with CPU micro-architecture and their critical path

Low power implementation techniques experience

High speed CPU implementation

Clock Tree Implementation Techniques for High Speed Design Implementation are required

Exposure to Constraint management tool and Verilog coding experience