Lead Physical Design Engineer

Company:Qualcomm India Private LimitedJob 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.

General

Opportunity of dream come true through working on Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU cores to leverage innovative skills. One would be contributing to solve intriguing and key problems in the physical design (PD) and optimization space. With a steadfast focus on improving Power, Performance and Area (PPA) of our industry leading CPU designs. Also, need to interact with multiple teams like SOC, library, technology etc.

High level requirements

• Candidate should possess a BE/ME in Electronics Engineering from reputed institute with strong fundamentals in VLSI design.
• Should have minimum 3 years’ experience in physical design with expert level understanding on physical design aspects. Max experience can be 10 years.
• Strong fundamentals in high-performance, low-power physical design and implementation techniques (with working knowledge of industry synthesis, PnR and STA tools).
• Should have extensive exposure of working in lower technology nodes: 7nm and below.
• Specialist expertise on physical design optimizations all the way from floorplan to GDS, also should have know how on how the best can be extracted out of synthesis for design convergence from placement stage.
• Exposure on power minimization techniques.
• Should have deep knowledge about clock tree complications and to implement the advance techniques for the best in class clock tree.
• Exposure on ARM cores implementation is plus.
• Should be aware about IR drop complexities as well.
• Proficiency in programming and scripting (Python, TCL, Perl) with strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms. Specific skills on TCL programming using Innovus command sets.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

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Although this role has some expected minor physical activity, this should not deter otherwise qualified applicants from applying. If you are an individual with a physical or mental disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, please call Qualcomm’s toll-free number found herefor assistance. Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, to support individuals with disabilities as part of our ongoing efforts to create an accessible workplace.

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