Senior Physical Design Engineer - DSP Team

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

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.

Include various aspects of physical design and implementation of DSP.

Work on activities related to synthesis. hard macro integration, placement, clock tree synthesis (CTS), routing, and overall physical design convergence.

deliverables include floorplanning,  power grid implementation, secondary PG grid planning and other floorplan related tasks.

Update the physical implementation flows for optimum PPA (power, performance, and area).

• Perform synthesis placement and create handoffs to top-level chip teams.
• Lead the core level timing ECOs.
• Drive the development of semi-custom design techniques where appropriate to maximize utilization, performance, and power efficiency. 
• Use and extend/enhance design methodologies to achieve the best PPA through scripting.
• Work independently with little supervision.
• Use verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. May require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.
• Have a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to provide input on key decisions).
• Complete tasks that do not have defined steps; simultaneous use of multiple mental abilities is generally required to determine the best approach; mistakes may result in significant rework.
• Exercise substantial creativity to innovate new processes, procedures, or work products within guidelines or to achieve established objectives.
• Use deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required.
• Occasionally participate in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.
• Use tools/applications (i.e., Cadence, RTL Compiler, etc.) to execute advanced architecture and design of multiple complex blocks and makes suggestions for design protocol. 
• Develop an implementation strategy that meets system requirements and customer needs for team.
• Effectively utilize advanced problem solving and ASIC engineering practices to resolve complex architecture, design, or verification problems. 
• Own the design and verification strategies of ASICs, SoC, and IP cores, reviews the strategies of more junior team members, and develops strategies for multiple blocks or IC Packages. 
• Review complex tests from more junior team members and completes own tests to ensure that bugs are fully understood and analyzed.   
• Run advanced power checks on multiple blocks to ensure design specifications are met; makes recommendations to leadership when specifications are not met. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
• Strong proficiency in P&R, timing analysis, physical verification, and IR drop analysis CAD tools (e.g., Synopsys FC/ICC2/DC/PT/STAR/ICV, Cadence Genus/Innovus/Tempus).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
• 4+ years ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
• 2+ years experience with architecture and design tools.
• 2+ years experience with scripting tools and programming languages.
• 2+ years experience with design verification methods.

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$115,600.00 - $173,400.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.  We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).  In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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