Qualcomm CPU RTL Design Engineer - Cork 

Ireland, Cork 

494433992

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

About The Role

We are hiring talented engineers for CPU RTL development targeted for high performance, low power devices. As a CPU Micro-architecture and RTL Design Engineer, you will work with chip architects to conceive of the micro-architecture, and also help with architecture/product definition through early involvement in the product life-cycle.

What will you be doing?

• Performance exploration. Explore high performance strategies working with the CPU modelling team.

• Microarchitecture development and specification. From early high-level architectural exploration, through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification.

• RTL ownership. Development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals.

• Functional verification support. Help the design verification team execute on the functional verification strategy.

• Performance verification support. Help verify that the RTL design meets the performance goals.

• Design delivery. Work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power.

What are we looking for?

• Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, prefetching, cache and memory subsystems

• Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL. Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools

• Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications

• Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques

• Understanding of high performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture

• Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python

Where you will be working

A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

What's on Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus

• Maternity/Paternity Leave

• Employee stock purchase scheme

• Matching pension scheme

• Education Assistance

• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)

• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance

• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being

• Bicycle purchase scheme

• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

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.

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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.