Physical Design Engineer

    • Qualcomm Technologies
  • San Diego, CA
  • Posted 60+ days ago | Updated 5 hours ago

Overview

On Site
USD 108,000.00 - 162,000.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

Place and route
Policies and procedures
Physical data model
Data processing
Signal integrity
Formal verification
Timing closure
Leadership
Communication
Transformation
ASIC
Design
IP
System on a chip
Collaboration
Science
Art
GPU
SAP MM
DDR SDRAM
Audio
R
DFT
Planning
Information retrieval
Routing
Optimization
Extraction
Debugging
Scripting
Python
Perl
Tcl
Linux
Unix
Shell
C
Cadence
Synopsys
Fusion
Compilers
Recruiting
Law
Sales

Job Details

Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm ASIC Engineer, you will define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for a variety of high performance, high quality, low power world class products. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional groups to determine product execution path.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

QCTs Digital ASIC Team is actively seeking candidates for several physical design engineering positions in our SOC and core design team. As a physical design engineer you will innovate, develop, and implement chips and cores using state-of-the-art tools and technologies.

You will be part of a team responsible for the complete Physical Design Flow and deliveries of complex, high-speed, low power designs such as GPU, Camera and other MM, DDR, Modem, Audio . Tasks also involve the development and enablement of low power implementation methods, customized P&R to achieve area reduction, performance, and power goals. Additional responsibilities in this role involves good understanding of functional and test (DFT) mode constraints for place and route, floorplanning, power planning, IR drop analysis, cell placement, multi-mode & multi-corner (MMMC) clock tree synthesis, routing, timing optimization and closure, RC extraction, signal integrity, cross talk noise and delay analysis, debugging timing violations for MMMC designs, implementing timing fixes and functional ECOs, debugging and fixing physical violations, and formal verification. The individual also should have deep knowledge on scripting and software languages including Python, PERL/TCL, Linux/Unix shell and C. This individual will design, verify, and deliver complex Physical Design solutions from netlist and timing constraints to the final product.

Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field

Preferred Qualifications
2+ years industry experience/coursework in the following areas:
- Physical Design
- Place & Route tool experience on Cadence Innovus and/or Synopsys Fusion Compiler
- Timing closure experience in Synopsys PTSI
- Formal verification experience

- Power domain analysis experience

- Physical verification experience

Although this role has some expected minor physical activity, this should not deter otherwise qualified applicants from applying. If you are an individual with a physical or mental disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, please call Qualcomm's toll-free number found for assistance. Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, to support individuals with disabilities as part of our ongoing efforts to create an accessible workplace.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.

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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:
$108,000.00 - $162,000.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer!

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