Qualcomm ASIC Design Implementation Engineer – Compute DSP/AI Processors 

Canada, Ontario, Markham 

333112528

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop module, hard-macro, and floor planning specifications for digital compute processing cores, bus interfaces, and other system-on-a-chip functions

• Investigate, analyze, and present performance, area, power, and system cost tradeoffs for hard macros using constraint, timing, and floorplan driven optimizations

• Contribute to and drive design, floor planning, and implementation meetings within a multi-disciplinary team

• Implement and debug timing constraints, RTL, Design for Test (DFT), and clock functions

• Perform netlist synthesis, Formal Verification, and Static Timing Analysis of hard macros

• Implement ECOs using automated design flows

• Complete design checks and analysis such as: lint, CDC, power intent, and static timing reports

• Develop methodology and automation for design/synthesis using tcl/make/python scripts

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years ASIC design and netlist implementation

• Authorization to work legally in Canada

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience implementing high speed logic designs with RAM and several clock domains

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to concisely evaluate and deliver specifications, plans, and design analyses

• Detail oriented with strong analytical, critical thinking, and debugging skills

• Collaborative and able to adapt to challenging team objectives in a multi-national organization

• Understanding of ASIC/VLSI design concepts

• Bus interfaces (AHB/AXI)

• Clock crossing

• RAM and FIFO integration

• ASIC clock network analysis

• Static timing analysis debug strategy

• Timing constraints development and debug

• Power optimization

• Proven design and implementation skills using several of the following languages and tools

• Synthesis: DCG/NXT, Genus, IC Compiler,

• Static Timing: Primetime

• Power Intent and Analysis: UPF, CLP, PTPX, PowerPro

• Formal Verification: Conformal, Formality

• Design/DV: RTL, VCS, FC, Verdi, Questa, Xcelium, Spyglass

• Scripting Languages: TCL, Python, Perl, UNIX shell

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.