Qualcomm Physical Design Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

691490511

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

• Physical design engineer

• Physical Implementation activities for high performance Cores for 16/14/7/5nm or lower technologies, which includes all or some of the below.

• Floor-planning,

• Place and Route,

• CTS,

• Formal verification,

• Physical Verification (DRC/LVS),

• Low Power verification,

• PDN,

• Timing Closure and / or

• power optimization

• Exposure to PD implementation of PPA critical cores.

• Exposure to timing convergence of high frequency data-path intensive Cores and advanced STA concepts.

• Able to handle Block level PnR convergence with Synopsys ICC2/ Cadence Innovus and timing convergence in PTSI/Tempus in latest technology nodes.

• Understanding of clocking architecture.

• Tcl/Python/Perl Scripting aware for small automation

• Strong problem-solving skills , good communication skills and good team player

• Collaborate with design, DFT and PNR teams and support issue resolutions wrt constraints validation, verification, STA, Physical design, etc.

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.