CPU Micro-architect/RTL Designer -Principal Engineer

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary:

General Summary Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age - and this is where you come in. We are hiring talented engineers for CPU RTL development targeted for high performance, low power devices. As a CPU Micro-architecture and RTL Design Engineer, you will work with chip architects to conceive of the micro-architecture, and also help with architecture/product definition through early involvement in the product life-cycle.

Roles And Responsibilities

Performance exploration. Explore high performance strategies working with the CPU modeling team.

Microarchitecture development and specification. From early high-level architectural exploration, through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification.

RTL ownership. Development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals.

Functional verification support. Help the design verification team execute on the functional verification strategy.

Performance verification support. Help verify that the RTL design meets the performance goals.

Design delivery. Work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and po

Preferred Qualifications

Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas:instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, prefetching, cache and memory subsystems

Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL. Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools

Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications

Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques

Understanding of high performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture

Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR
Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 7+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.

15+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

4+ years of experience with circuit/logic design/validation (e.g., digital, analog, RF).

4+ years of experience utilizing schematic capture and circuit stimulation software.

4+ years of experience with hardware design and measurement instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF tools, etc.

4+ years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Leverages expert Hardware knowledge and experience to plan, optimize, verify, and test highly critical electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems.

Drives the development of design rules and processes for electronic hardware, equipment, and/or integrated circuitry.

Serves as an expert resource for conducting highly complex simulations and analyses of designs as well as for the implementation of designs with the best power, performance, and area.

Collaborates with high-level representatives across functions (e.g., design, verification, validation, software and systems engineering, architecture development teams, etc.) to implement and drive new requirements and the latest test solutions in the production program to improve the yield, test time, and quality.

Evaluates, characterizes, and develops the novel manufacturing solutions for leading edge products in highly advanced processes and bring-up product to meet customer expectations and schedules.

Serves as an expert resource for the evaluation of reliability for highly critical materials, properties, and techniques and brings innovation, automation, and optimization to maximize productivity.

Advises multiple teams of engineers in the development of complex hardware designs, evaluating various design features to identify potential flaws or issues.

Writes detailed technical documentation for highly complex Hardware projects; reviews technical documentation for experienced engineers.

Level of Responsibility:

Provides supervision to direct reports.

Decision-making is critical in nature and highly impacts program, product, or project success.

Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey highly complex and/or detailed information. May require strong negotiation and influence with large groups or high-level constituents.

Works within the prescribed budgetary objectives of the department.

Has a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions.

Tasks often require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; extensive planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.


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