SOC Physical Design Lead: Sr Lead/Staff

Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering

General Summary:

Job Overview:

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 Systems Engineer, you will research, design, develop, simulate, and/or validate systems-level software, hardware, architecture, algorithms, and solutions that enables the development of cutting-edge technology. Qualcomm Systems Engineers collaborate across functional teams on next generation System-on-chip (SoC) for smartphone, tablet, automotive, machine-learning accelerators and other product categories.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor/Master's Degree in Electronics & Communication Micro Electronics or related field and 5+ years of Physical Design or related work experience.

OR
PhD in Electronics & Communication Micro Electronics or related field and 2+ years of Physical Design or related work experience.

Overview

Work with Qualcomm's Platform Architecture team on next generation System-on-chip (SoC) for Compute, smartphone, IoT and other product categories. Candidate will be involved in architecture and/or microarchitecture of various subsystems and interfaces of the SoCs, e.g. reset, boot, power management, security, access control, debug services, various processing subsystems like CPU, DSP, GPU and AI Accelerator subsystems etc.

The successful candidate will -

• Be part of Qualcomm Platform Architecture Team
• Work with Hardware and Software teams to understand the design requirements, specification, and interface details.
• Validate architecture/ microarchitecture models for multiple peripherals, interconnects, and IPs for Qualcomm SoC platforms.
• Work with team to integrate these models to the SoC platform and validate IP/ System Level use cases.
• Perform area, power, performance trade-offs and analysis of HW/SW re-usability requirements for IP/Cores and complete SoC.
• Develop Specification, system level architecture/micro-architecture of system use-cases, working with cross functional teams.
• Have experience working with ARM-based SoC architectures, in-depth understanding of computer architecture fundamentals, the ability to develop complex systems.

Candidate will be working closely with cross-functional teams in analyzing power, performance, area trade-offs, IP wise Area deep dive analysis.. will be involved in perform architectural analysis and architectural validation

Individuals who possess skills/experience in one or more of the following are requested to apply:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Good understanding of SoC Design & Physical Design Concepts.
• Understanding of VLSI flow from spec to tapeout
• Strong debugging, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good understanding of interfaces and on-chip interconnects
• Proficiency in digital design, VLSI, computer architecture, HDL languages, Scripting languages (Perl/Tcl/Python preferred)
• ARM architecture, Coresight architecture, power management fundamentals
• Good communication skills, presentation skills and should manage his/her tasks independently
• Self-motivated, Go-getter & Strong inter-personal skills,
• Desired: hands on experience with SoC design and integration for complex SoCs
• Desired:Profiles with both Design and PD (SOC Floorplan/PKG/PDN) background is a big plus
• Desired: Python Scripting, Data visualization tools like XL - Pivot table, PowerBI

Areas of Expertise (the more the better):

Candidates should have one or more of the following areas of knowledge and/or expertise:

• Physical Design flow, understanding of design, floorplan & placement of different Digital/Analog components on an SOC
• Understanding of VLSI flow from spec to tape out with proficiency in digital design, HDL languages, Scripting languages is preferred.
• ARM and RISC-V Architecture expertise specifically in areas of Coherency, Signaling, Memory Management, Virtualization, etc
• DSPs, CPUs (ARM preferred), High and Low Speed peripherals
• DDR, Interconnect, System Cache, QOS.
• Power, Boot, Debug, Security, Access Control Architecture.
• Power and/or performance analysis, simulation, and modelling.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.