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:
General Summary:
We are hiring talented engineers for CPU RTL development targeted for high performance, low power devices.
In this role, 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
Experience Required: 12+ Years.
As an RTL engineer you will own or participate in the following:
● 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 power.
Skillset looking for:
● Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas: Active power management (DVFS) , Idle power management, Limit management (TDP, Thermal and Over-current protection), Clock management, Debug and Trace architecture.
● Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL. Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools.
● Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Associate's degree in computer science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Engineering, or related field.
MS degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering.
● 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.
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