CPU Integration CAD 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.

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Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
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Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

As CPU Integration CAD engineer, you will enable the floor-planning, physical design (PD), physical design verification (PDV), and signoff of Qualcomm's class-leading Oryon CPU cores. You will build and support agile flows and methodologies that enable the first time right development of products with industry-leading power, performance and area.

Experience: 6 to 15 years of experience with good academics.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Work closely with worldwide cross-functional teams such as CPU physical design, CPU and SOC Integration, Technology and Central CAD

• Develop, integrate and release flows and methodologies for floor planning, power planning, pin placement, chip assembly, PDV analysis

• Develop and maintain unit and system tests to enable correct-by-construction floorplans and physical layouts

• Architect and recommend methodology improvements to ensure our silicon has the best power, performance and area

• Maintain and support implementation flows, and resolve project-specific issues 

• Work with EDA vendors to define roadmap and to resolve tool issues

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or Computer Science

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in development of high-performance chips - either in a design or CAD role

• High level of programming proficiency (Python and TCL).

• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms

• Experience with automation

• Experience with a broad variety of Physical Design tasks - ranging all the way from place-and-route, analysis, timing sign-off and PDV

• Experience with advanced technology nodes (5nm or lower)

• Strong user of industry-standard PDV tools such as Siemens/Mentor Calibre

• Strong user of industry-standard place-and-route tools such as Cadence Innovus 

• Proven track record of managing and regressing place-and-route flows

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