Pe-infra Systems Architect

**Company**: Qualcomm India Private Limited

**Job Area**: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems 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 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 to meet and exceed system-level requirements and standards.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Job Title**:Infra Systems Architect**

Job description

**Infra Systems Architect** for the next generation System-on-chip (SoC) for smartphones, tablets and other product categories. This position will be responsible for
- Technical leadership role working with SOC architects, DMs and PDMs from early stages of the project to understand new usecases and feature requirements
- IP baseline selection, area projections and feature negotiations
- Convert the requirements to solutions and work with Infra IP development teams to flawlessly implement them
- Point of contact in Product core and architecture meetings in identifying and solving system level issues.
- Work with performance projection team to define experiments, analyze data, draw conclusions, identify potential problems and drive solutions
- Work with SoC, Verification, Physical Design, SoC Floorplan and core teams in identifying optimizations and drive them into products.
- Point of contact for debugging Post Si issues at system level.

Preferred Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience in SOC/IP architecture, micro-architecture and design.
- Good understanding of SOC. Possesses expertise in 1 or more of the following technical areas: DDR, Security, access control, Interconnects, SMMU, SOC power management, boot, clock/reset, UBWC, Encryption, ECC
- Understanding of ARM architecture (Coherency, bus interconnects, Security, arch evolution)
- Good communication and leadership skills; work with mínimal supervision
- Collaborate with internal (Perf, Design and System team) and external (SoC arch, Client Ips) stakeholders in developing solutions
- Understanding of traffic patterns and BW of different clients a plusExperience with high-performance and low power micro-architecture concepts
- Experience with Verilog, logic design principles with timing, area and power implications.
- Experience with scripting languages like Perl/Python/Java for developing proof of concept of the new ideas.
- Performance: explore high performance strategies and validate that the micro architecture meets targeted performance.
- Understanding of interconnect protocols like AHB/AXI/ACE/ACE-Lite/CHI.
- Good understanding of the design convergence cycle in terms of architecture, micro-architecture, synthesis, timing closure and verification
- Good Understanding of concurrency, bandwidth, latency and system level aspects
- Provides direction, mentoring, and leadership from small to medium sized groups.

Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering required, Master's or Doctorate preferred

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.