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Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
As CPU Physical Design CAD engineer, you will build and support the world’s best implementation tools and flows. Your tools and flows will ensure our custom CPUs have industry-leading power, performance and area.
Roles and Responsibilities
Develop, integrate and release new features in our high-performance place-and-route CAD flow
Architect and recommend methodology improvements to ensure our silicon has the best power, performance and area
Maintain, support and debug implementation flows, and resolve project-specific issues
Work closely with worldwide CPU physical design teams, and provide methodology guidance, tools/flows support and help achieve class-leading PPA.
Work with EDA vendors to define roadmap and to resolve tool issues
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelors/Masters degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or Computer Science
Ten+ years of hands-on experience in place-and-route of high-performance chips - either in a design or CAD role
High level of proficiency in Tcl as well as Python
Experience with automation
Experience with a wide variety of Physical Design tasks - ranging all the way from place-and-route, analysis, timing sign-off and PDV
Experience with advanced technology nodes (5nm or lower)
Solid understanding of digital design, timing analysis and physical verification
Strong user of industry-standard place-and-route tools such as Cadence Innovus
Proven track record of managing and regressing place-and-route flows
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.
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