ASIC Front-End Implementation Engineer - Cork, Ireland

About the Role

Qualcomm offers flexible work options tailored to our employee’s needs. These include a combination of work from home and working in our brand new, state of the art office in Penrose Dock, Cork.

Well-being and life balance are fundamental to Qualcomm as an employer.  We recognise and understand that employees have missed spending quality time with loved ones and extended family. 

As such, Cork Qualcomm policy allows our employees to blend short-term remote working with annual leave.

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all.  As a Qualcomm ASIC Engineer, you will define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for a variety of high performance, high quality, low power world class products. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional groups to determine product execution path.

QCTs Digital ASIC Team is actively seeking Front-End Implementation engineers to work on the creation of top-level timing constraints, physical synthesis, formal verification and functional ECOs to bridge the RTL and physical design worlds at our Cork, Ireland location. You will be part of an established Implementation team that will drive and execute on all phases of the design flow for Snapdragon SoCs at the core and chip-level in 4nm and below technology.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelors/Masters in Electronics or Computer Engineering and 5 to 10 years’ experience across the following areas:
• Logical/Physical synthesis, DFT implementation, timing closure in STA
• Timing constraint capture in TCL for Synopsys tools
• Formal verification, Functional/Timing ECO Implementation
• Verilog RTL design
• UPF, Low power checks
   

This Position Requires Detailed Knowledge Of

• Masters in Electronics or Computer Engineering plus 5 years of experience:
• Timing constraint development for large complex SoC devices
• TCL script development
• TCL/PERL/Python script development for CAD design flows
• Physical synthesis
• Formal verification, UPF, Low power checks, Static Timing Analysis
• Good understanding of Design for test concepts

Where you will be working
Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.

There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.

A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

About Us
The Cork site is home to a range of digital teams working on cutting edge designs for the latest Snapdragon chip sets. The teams work on several key digital domains including Advanced HW Security, GPU, Power Control, Sensors, Wearables, Automotive, AR and many more.

Each team is working with the latest tools and digital design and verification techniques in bleeding edge silicon nodes, 5nm and below. Team members work directly with architecture, software and SoC teams in Ireland and other global Qualcomm locations.

Successful candidates will be responsible for leading and participating in the Synthesis of leading-edge ASIC's and SoC's, in advanced digital CMOS processes for multi-function mobile platforms.


Equal Opportunities
We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.

Giving Back
Employees in Cork have a strong sense of community. We are encouraged through the philanthropic endeavours of the Qualcomm Foundation to support causes that matter to us.

What's On Offer
Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:
 

• Flexible Work from Home options
• Salary, stock and performance related bonus
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Matching pension scheme
• Education Assistance
• Relocation and immigration support
• Life, Medical, Dental, Income and Travel Insurance
• Subsidised gym membership
• Bicycle purchase scheme
• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more