Qualcomm CPU Physical Design Engineer 

United States, Texas, Austin 

47456624

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

• 1+ year of work experience with high level programming (e.g., C, C++), scripting language programming (e.g., Perl, Python, etc.).

• 1+ year of work experience with industry standard tools for synthesis place and/or route and design verification.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Applies knowledge of computer architecture, micro-architecture, logic design, circuits, and/or physical design to assist in the development and verification of high performance and low power CPU designs.

• Identifies and solves routine problems to ensure design completeness, functionality, power, and performance.

• Collaborates with team members to assist in the defining of requirements, specifications, and trade-offs (e.g., performance, power, cost, functionalities, etc.) in order to accomplish product goals.

• Assists in the evaluation of the design process from conceptualization to productization (i.e., architecture definition, feasibility, pre-silicon design and verification, and post-silicon validation) that meet customer and industry standards.

• Writes technical documentation (e.g., feature descriptions, architectural descriptions, verification test plans, and implementation details, etc.) for CPU designs.

Level of Responsibility:

• Works under supervision.

• Decision-making affects direct area of work and/or work group.

• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey basic, routine factual information.

• Tasks require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; some planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

$103,600.00 - $155,400.00