Qualcomm CPU Physical Design Engineer - San Diego 

United States, California, San Diego 

426924194

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

As a CPU Physical Design Engineer, you will work with microarchitecture and RTL design team to implement the designs meeting aggressive power, area and performance goals using industry standard tools/flows.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Work with CPU microarchitecture team to understand specifications and design trade offs in pipeline and structure sizing.

• Perform feasibilities to validate implementability, area, timing and power.

• Synthesize the Verilog RTL into gate level designs and perform optimizations.

• Perform SynthPlace & Route on the designs using industry standard tools and deliver GDS.

• Optimize the design at various stages from RTL to GDS to meet timing, power and area goals.

• Validate the designs for functional and electrical robustness.

Preferred qualifications

• MS degree in Electrical Engineering; 10 years of practical experience

• Knowledge of CPU microarchitecture.

• Experience in deep submicron process technology nodes is strongly preferred.

• Knowledge of library cells and optimizations.

• Solid understanding industry standard tools for synthesis, place & route and tapeout flows.

• Experience with Synthesis, place and route and signoff timing/power analysis.

• Knowledge of high performance and low power implementation methods

• Knowledge of CPU microarchitecture, logic design and circuits

Physical Requirements

• Frequently transports between offices, buildings, and campuses up to ½ mile.

• Frequently transports and installs equipment up to 5 lbs.

• Performs required tasks at various heights (e.g., standing or sitting).

• Monitors and utilizes computers and test equipment for more than 6 hours a day.

• Continuous communication which includes the comprehension of information with colleagues, customers, and vendors both in person and remotely.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, 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.

$122,500.00 - $183,700.00