Qualcomm

Physical Design Engineer - Mixed Signal IP

Qualcomm$98K — $147K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or relevant field.
  • Minimum of 6 years' experience in physical design engineering with successful tapeouts in nanometer technologies.
  • In-depth knowledge of the design flow from RTL to GDS, including floor-planning and power design networks.
  • Familiarity with physical verification processes like DRC, LVS, and ERC, with Virtuoso experience as a plus.
  • Proficient in industry-leading design tools such as Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor, and Ansys.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership and direction to ensure project execution.
  • Manage timelines and deliverables, ensuring projects track to closure.
  • Mentor and support team members in a high-paced environment.
  • Collaborate with design and cross-functional teams to drive projects forward.
  • Communicate technical and non-technical issues effectively.
  • Take ownership of tasks, making informed decisions during execution.
  • Utilize creative problem-solving for troubleshooting technical challenges.

Benefits

  • Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
  • Opportunity for annual RSU grants.
  • Comprehensive benefits package for work-life balance.
  • Dedicated recruiter assistance for benefits discussion.
Full Job Description
General Summary:

We are looking for a physical design engineer to join our design team in San Diego California. Successful candidate will be part of design group responsible to deliver IP implementation like high-speed DDR, USB, PCI, PLL and mixed Digital and Analog designs. This person should demonstrate extensive knowledge in physical design flow and methodologies to ensure high quality and timely release, successful silicon in nanometer technologies, understand key design challenges and solutions.

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities:
  • Provide technical leadership and direction to project execution.
  • Manage project timelines, deliverables and track them to closure.
  • Mentor, guide and help team members in a fast-paced environment.
  • Collaborate with design team and work with cross functional teams.
  • Use good verbal and written communication skills to describe daily technical and non-technical issues
  • Take responsibility for your own work and making decisions
  • Exercise creativity to troubleshoot technical problems


Requirements:
  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields.
  • A minimum of 6 years' experience in physical design engineering
    • Successful Tapeouts in Nanometer Technologies
    • Understanding of complex foundry design rules and requirements
  • In-depth knowledge of design flow RTL to GDS process
    • Floor-planning
      • Automatic and custom placement
      • Multi-voltage power domains
      • Pre-placement and pre-routing
    • Power Design Networks PDN-planning
    • Place & Route
    • Clock Tree Synthesis and customization
    • Static Timing Analysis
      • Understand Timing constraints
      • Fixing timing violations
    • Physical Verification
      • DRC, LVS, ERC, DFM
      • Virtuoso is a plus
  • Experience with industry leading tools
    • Cadence
    • Synopsys
    • Mentor
    • Ansys
  • Working knowledge of programming languages, HDL, OS
    • Python, C++, TCL, Perl, Awk
    • Verilog/VHDL,Unix/Linux
  • Excellent written and verbal communication.
  • Automation with Perl, Python and tcl is plus


Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$98,500.00 - $147,700.00

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.

About Qualcomm

Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. Founded in 2000, Qualcomm Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund with over 150 active portfolio companies and more than 20 exits over a billion dollars, including 99 Taxis, Cruise Automation, Fitbit, Invensense, NQ Mobile, Waze, and more. As a global investor, Qualcomm Ventures helps connect entrepreneurs to the resources, relationships, and deep industry expertise they need to succeed in the mobile technology ecosystem.

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