Qualcomm CAD Front End CPU Methodology Automation Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

785352848

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Responsibilities

• As a CAD Methodology and Automation Engineer, you will work with RTL, architecture, design, DV, software, and silicon verification users.

• Focus on generating new ideas, proving those, putting together flows/methodologies around those, and incorporating those in implementation flow for CPU designs.

• Collaborate with chip leads to determine new areas in Front-End/Design Verification to support current or future designs that can benefit from automation and tooling

• Define and implement new infrastructure capabilities that can be used to accelerate design and development utilizing multi-site datacenters

• Drive consensus across business units on tool & design methodology

• Work closely with design teams to define methodologies, drive flow development, and deploy vendor tools

• Interfaces with various cross functional teams and external vendors to define, drive and incorporate the latest design solutions to improve productivity and time to market.

• Support design engineers on the flow setup and resolve their queries

Qualifications

• Must have strong object-oriented programming abilities in Python; Must have Linux knowledge and experience with data-management software

• Must have worked on Digital flows/methodologies development in the DV domains like Simulation, Emulation and Formal verification.

• Experience with CI/CD platform (like Airflow and Jenkins) and Version Control System (like Perforce and/or Git).

• MS/BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering with 10+ years of demonstrated experience in CAD or EDA tools flows architecture, development, and support.

• Demonstrated experience with various EDA software, flows, and architectures & driving EDA vendors to provide feature enhancements and bugfixes.

• Ability to document design methodologies & provide training on tools and workflows to design teams

• Strong skills in debugging and analyzing techniques to understand existing scripts/flows; Ability to work independently and explore new domains

• Proven track record of pushing Prior experience debugging vendor tool problems

• Strong written and verbal interpersonal skills and track record of success in a collaborative team environment

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.