Qualcomm Mask Layout Designer Senior Staff 

United States, California, San Diego 

141775511

Job Area:

Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > Mask Layout Design

Develops block, macro, or chip level layouts and floorplans according to project requirements, specifications, and design schematics. Applies understanding of design manuals, established processes, layout elements, and basic electronic principles to create accurate designs that meet project needs. Conducts analyses, tests, and verifies designs using different tools and techniques to identify and troubleshoot issues, and stays abreast of new verification methods. Works with multiple internal and external stakeholders to align on projects, provide updates, and resolve issues.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Electronic Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of experience designing custom layouts in relevant domain (e.g., analog, mixed signal, RF, digital design), or related work experience.

Associate's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field and 8+ years of experience designing custom layouts in relevant domain (e.g., analog, mixed signal, RF, digital design), or related work experience.

High School diploma or equivalent and 10+ years of experience designing custom layouts in relevant domain (e.g., analog, mixed signal, RF, digital design), or related work experience.

• 6+ years of experience using layout design and verification tools (e.g., cadence, LVS, rmap).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Technology, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or related field.

• 8+ years of experience designing custom layouts in a specific relevant technology (e.g., FINFET, CMOS, GATE ARRAY).

• 8+ years of experience designing custom layouts in relevant domain (e.g., analog, mixed signal, RF, digital design).

• 3+ years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.

• 3+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above).

• 1+ year of working with operating budgets and/or project financials.

• 2+ years in a leadership role with direct reports (applies only to those with direct reports).

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides guidance to team on effectively developing highly complex project requirements, specifications, and schematics to understand top level design needs.

• Guides team to define and build top level layouts and floorplans and reviews work based on in-depth understanding of layout techniques, design elements, requirements (e.g., PPA, yield), and electronic principles (e.g., currents, resistance, parasitics).

• Develops and communicates guidelines, processes, design rule manuals, and checklists to help team members develop high-quality, accurate designs that meet standards.

• Provides technical oversight to team for testing and validating top-level designs against specifications using layout and verification tools (e.g., Cadence, LVS, rmap) to identify errors and ensure layouts can be built by manufacturing.

• Manages moderately complex data and guides team to conduct advanced analyses and sign-off to identify, troubleshoot and/or diagnose, and resolve complex issues.

• Leads the development and implementation of new, improved, or automated ways to accomplish work and increase efficiencies across the team; guides others to adopt new approaches.

• Identifies and anticipates industry trends and developments in mask layout tools, techniques, and methodologies; integrates and facilitates adoption of new tools across the team.

• Re-scopes large projects, identifies and reassigns resources, delegates work, and reviews the work of team members in order to address changing timelines or priorities.

• Reviews and prioritizes assigned projects and determines the level of analyses and associated work that needs to be conducted in order to address project deadlines, mitigate risks, and assigns projects throughout the team accordingly; leads multiple projects.

• Builds collaborative relationships with key internal teams (e.g., Engineers, Program Management, and Business Operations) and external leaders (e.g., PVERF, PDCAD, QDA, Foundry, SoC) to identify needs, share updates, and resolve complex issues in a timely manner.

Level of Responsibility:

• Works independently with little supervision.

• Provides supervision to direct reports.

• Decisions are more significant in their impact, influencing overall program or project success, finances, and/or the ability to meet objectives. Errors are not readily apparent due to the complexity of work process/product or time between decisions and results. Errors typically result in significant expenditure of time, resources, and funds to correct.

• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. Role may require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.

• Has a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is making or directly making key decisions that will have substantial impact over the organization).

• Most tasks 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.

• Exceptional creativity is needed to innovate new ideas and develop innovative products/ processes without established objectives or known parameters.

• Deductive and inductive problem solving is required; 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 participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.

The responsibilities of this role do not include:

• Does not have financial accountability.

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.

$57.89 - $86.83