Qualcomm Physical Implementation Engineer 

United States, California, San Diego 

529310276

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > GPU ASICS Engineering

Architects, designs, implements, verifies, and optimizes performance and power of GPU cores. Responsible for building functional modeling simulations, evaluating process technology nodes, developing and analyzing semi-cusom circuit solutions, enhancing software, tools, and tests for various graphics, running benchmarks for different applications, and performing pre- and post-silicon verification to verify correctness and ensure performance and power goals are met.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

• 2+ years of relevant GPU experience (either external or internal).

• 1+ year of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director and above).

• 1+ year in a technical leadership role with direct reports (only applies to positions with direct reports).

• PNR/Synthesis tools, flows and methodologies

• SOC Design implementation /methodology

• Process technology

• Circuit Design

• STA timing

• Power analysis

• Semi-custom design flow and methodology

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Works across teams to align on important areas of feature development and ensure targets are met; ensures designs are innovative and compatible with other components.

• Develops high-quality GPU system based on requirements that balance power with performance and meet needs, benchmarks, and industry standards, even when faced with ambiguous information.

• Designs, programs, and runs comprehensive graphics tests using tools and methods for components under different scenarios and benchmarks to verify functionality, performance, power, and stability and identify issues.

• Conducts complex analyses of test results using statistics and data predictions to track benchmarks and identify issues or areas for improvement.

• Consults with internal or external users and third-party vendors to guide implementation and ensure alignment with their needs and goals.

• Builds deep understanding of one's domain and understands several other domains to anticipate how all components will integrate in the broader framework.

• Demonstrates good understanding of and conducts research on industry trends and innovations in graphics to ensure solutions and deliverables align with best practices.

• Contributes to conversations to generate new ideas for next generation graphics; provides recommendations for new directions to explore.

• Writes clear and detailed technical documentation and feature descriptions for complex projects to guide users and/or customers to use or implement software.

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:

$151,000.00 - $227,000.00