Physical Verification Engineer

Qualcomm India Private Limited

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 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.

• Implementation with emphasis on Physical Verification & Chip finishing activities for high performance Qualcomm Hexagon NPU cores.
• Must have led and been primarily responsible for physical verification checks and sign-off.
• Excellent understanding of Physical Verification flow with in-depth experience in analyzing and debugging DRC, ERC, LVS, DFM, Antenna, PERC, and Rule deck issues. (Mostly Working on Calibre tool)
• Deep understanding of ESD, latch-up etc.
• Own and execute PV activities at the Top/Block level.
• Work closely with PD team in addressing their PV issues and also suggest solutions to them.
• Work with CAD team in refining the existing flows/methodologies and to resolve the issues.
• Experience in IO, Bump planning and RDL routing Strategy is a plus.
• Physical check and integration experience with high-speed interfaces and applications, such as PCIe, Ethernet, DDR etc.
• Develop and implement timing and logic ECOs is a plus
• Innovus/FC level DRC fixing is a plus
• PERL/TCL knowledge is a plus.
• Ability to plan and work independently and coordinate with cross-functional teams

Skill Set:

• Experience with physical verification checks DRC, LVS, Antenna, ERC, PERC, ESD etc.
• Experience in PnR tools like ICC/Innovus with regards to physical convergence must.
• Understanding sign-off PDV tools like PDK Concepts, SVRF, Calibre and ICV.
• Good overall understanding of the Custom IC design flow.
• Good understanding of layouts and overall backend tool flow would be beneficial.
• Understanding sign-off PDV tools like PDK Concepts, SVRF, Calibre and ICV.
• TCL/PERL Scripting is plus.

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