Qualcomm CPU Floorplan Integration Engineer 

United States, Texas, Austin 

57904077

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

As a CPU Floorplan and Integration Engineer, you will work with microarchitecture, RTL design and physical design teams to design, floorplan and integrate the CPU designs meeting aggressive power, area and performance goals using industry standard tools/flows.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering with over 5 years of practical experience.

• Proficiency in synthesis, place and route, and signoff timing/power analysis.

• Expertise in block-level implementation as well as full chip floorplanning and power grid planning.

• Skilled in physical design, integration, and verification of large processor and system-on-chip (SoC) designs.

• Extensive knowledge of low power and high-performance design methodologies.

• Strong understanding of circuit and layout design principles.

• Proven ability to work effectively within a team environment.

• In-depth understanding of extraction, static timing analysis (STA), and electromigration and IR drop (EMIR) flows and methodologies.

Preferred qualifications

• MS degree in Electrical Engineering; 10 years of practical experience

• Experience in deep submicron process technology nodes is strongly preferred.

• Experience as a key technical lead driving development and delivery of physical design databases is a plus

• Solid understanding industry standard tools for synthesis, place & route and tapeout flows.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Perform CPU physical design tasks, including floorplanning, Bump/RDL planning, IP integration, power/ground generation, and pin assignment.

• Oversee full chip floorplan, area optimizations, block partitioning, and pin assignments.

• Manage chip-level place and route, and finalize the CPU database for construction and verification.

• Coordinate custom layout integration.

• Collaborate with external teams to fulfill IP technical and delivery requirements.

• Develop workflows for chip integration and analysis.

• Ensure the designs are validated for functional and electrical robustness.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

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.

$198,700.00 - $298,100.00