STA 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. Responsibilities:

• STA setup, convergence, reviews and signoff for multi-mode, multi-voltage domain designs.

• Timing analysis, validation and debug across multiple PVT conditions using PT/Tempus.

• Run Primetime and/or Tempus for STA flow optimization and Spice to STA correlation.

• Evaluate multiple timing methodologies/tools on different designs and technology nodes.

• Work on automation scripts within STA/PD tools for methodology development.

• Good Technical writing and Communication skills, should be willing to work in cross-collaborative environment

• Experience in design automation using TCL/Perl/Python.

• Familiar with digital flow design implementation RTL to GDS : ICC, Innovous , PT/Tempus

• Familiar with process technology enablement: Circuit simulations using Hspice/FineSim, Monte Carlo.

Education : B.Tech or MTech/MS in Electrical/Electronics/Microelectronics/VLSI.

Preferred Qualification/Skills

• 5 - 10 years of experience in STA/Timing

• Strong expertise in STA timing analysis basics, AOCV/POCV concepts, CTS, defining and managing timing constraints, Latch transparency handling, 0-cycle, multi-cycle path handling

• Hands-on experience with STA tools - Prime-time, Tempus

• Have experience in driving timing convergence at Chip-level and Hard-Macro level

• In-depth knowledge cross-talk noise, Signal Integrity, Layout Parasitic Extraction, feed through handling,

• Knowledge of ASIC back-end design flows and methods and tools (ICC2, Innovus)

• Knowledge of Spice simulation Hspice/FineSim, Monte Carlo. Silicon to spice model correlation.

• Proficient is scripting languages – TCL, Perl, Awk

• Basic knowledge of device physics

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