Qualcomm SoC Power Design Engineer 

United States, California, San Diego 

420889919

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering plus:

• ASIC frontend development

• Logic design, RTL coding, verification, synthesis, and timing closure

• Hardware description languages (Verilog, VHDL, System Verilog)

• Scripting - Perl/Tcl/Python

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering Experience with/in:

• Familiarity of overall SoC Infrastructure - Busses, CPUs, I/Os and DFT Components

• Familiarity of power islands, power gating, power sequencing and multi-voltage domain design

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Work with frontend RTL, DFT, Synthesis, and Physical design teams in the development of power intent design at SoC level

• Generate and validate power intent design (UPF) at SoC level

• Review designs and guide IP designers' power intent design ensuring it meets SoC level low power implementation requirements

• Work with design verification in validating low power design featurs at SoC and IP level.

• Collaborate with company CAD and vendor to enhance existing power flows and tools

• Improve power design flows in areas of power modeling, clock power analysis, structural power validation, IP power intent QA

• Execute power-aware implementation flow, including UPF/CPF/Conformal Low Power Check

• Review IP design's power features and power budgets/estimates

• Track IP power development through the design cycle ensuring it meets power budgets - leakage/dynamic at every milestone

• Perform power analysis/projection of SoC baseline power and deliver SoC power models to chipset

• Execute power simulation/analysis tool (PtPx/PowerArtist)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

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.

Pay range:

$108,000.00 - $162,000.00