Staff IP 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 and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

IPPD: Physical design engineer

• Physical Implementation activities for high performance Cores for 16/14/7/5nm or lower technologies, which includes all or some of the below.
  • Floor-planning,
  • Place and Route,
  • CTS,
  • Formal verification,
  • Physical Verification (DRC/LVS),
  • Low Power verification,
  • PDN,
  • Timing Closure and or
  • power optimization
• Exposure to PD implementation of PPA critical cores.
• Exposure to timing convergence of high frequency data-path intensive Cores and advanced STA concepts.
• Able to handle Block level PnR convergence with Synopsys ICC2/ Cadence Innovus and timing convergence in PTSI/Tempus in latest technology nodes.
• Understanding of clocking architecture.
• Tcl/Python/Perl Scripting aware for small automation
• Strong problem-solving skills , good communication skills and good team player
• Collaborate with design, DFT and PNR teams and support issue resolutions wrt constraints validation, verification, STA, Physical design, etc.