Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering
General Summary:Accelerating the Future of CPU DesignWhat You'll Do:You will operate at the intersection of:
- Artificial Intelligence
- RTL Design
- Design Verification
- Engineering Methodology
- Infrastructure and Automation
You'll identify inefficiencies that consume engineering time and eliminate them through innovation, automation, and AI-enabled workflows.
You'll develop solutions that:
- Accelerate RTL development and review
- Simplify verification environment creation
- Reduce debug turnaround time
- Surface actionable insights from massive engineering datasets
- Improve methodology adoption and consistency
- Increase engineering productivity at organizational scale
You will evaluate emerging technologies, experiment with bleeding-edge AI capabilities, and transform promising ideas into production-quality solutions used by teams across the company.
Areas of Impact:AI-Powered EngineeringDevelop intelligent workflows that augment design and verification engineers throughout the development cycle.
Leverage agentic systems, large language models, and advanced analytics to improve engineering productivity, design quality, and decision-making.
Methodology InnovationDefine the next generation of RTL and verification methodologies by integrating AI directly into established engineering practices.
Transform how teams write code, review designs, analyze results, debug failures, and learn from data.
Infrastructure & AutomationBuild scalable systems, services, and frameworks that enable engineers to focus on solving technical problems instead of managing process overhead.
Create durable platforms that become foundational to how engineering is performed.
Organizational MultiplicationDrive solutions that scale across teams, programs, and geographies.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish alone, but by how much more effective everyone becomes because of your contributions.
The Opportunity:We are entering an era where the most impactful engineering contributions may not be individual designs or verification environments, but the systems that enable thousands of those designs and verifications to happen faster and with higher quality.
If you're excited about AI, passionate about building tools, energized by solving hard productivity problems, and motivated by multiplying the impact of entire engineering organizations, this is the place to do it.
Help define how the next generation of CPUs are engineered-not just what gets built, but how engineering itself evolves.Minimum Qualifications:• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits: $148,300.00 - $222,500.00
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 - and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
