Qualcomm CPU RTL Power Management-Sr Staff 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

700090672

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

In this role, you will work with chip architects to conceive of the micro-architecture, and also help with architecture/product definition through early involvement in the product life-cycle.

As an RTL engineer you will own or participate in the following:

● Performance exploration. Explore high performance strategies working with the CPU modeling team.

● Microarchitecture development and specification. From early high-level architectural exploration, through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification.

● RTL ownership. Development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals.

● Functional verification support. Help the design verification team execute on the functional verification strategy.

● Performance verification support. Help verify that the RTL design meets the performance goals.

● Design delivery. Work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power.

Skillset looking for:

● Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas: Active power management (DVFS) , Idle power management , Limit management (TDP, Thermal and Over-current protection), Clock management, Debug and Trace architecture.

● Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL. Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools.

● Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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

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

MS degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering.

● Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques.

● Understanding of high performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture.

● Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python.

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.