Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > PMIC Systems
General Summary:Qualcomm's Power Management Systems team leads the industry in the system architecture and verification of high-performance Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMICs) and Power Management Units (PMUs) embedded in our chipsets for smartphones, tablets, notebooks, a variety of cutting-edge consumer electronics(smart watch, smart glasses), IOT and automotives. These systems consist of switch-mode power supplies and linear voltage regulators for a variety of core, peripheral and charging applications.
We are looking for Power Systems engineering professionals at entry level (assumes power related academic history), and depending on your experience level and area of technical expertise you will participate in the definition and verification of a variety of analog power systems while partnering with other Qualcomm engineering teams like Digital, RF, Mixed-Signal and SW team in a fast-paced environment. Responsibilities on the team are roughly divided between system design, PCB hardward and verification with significant overlap.
Examples of tasks required of each include:
Systems:
- Define and implement state of the art power systems and circuits for a variety of mobile devices, compute device, smart watch, smart glasses and automotive infortament and ADAS system.
- Research, specification and design of switch-mode power systems for chargers, USB interfaces, backlighting systems, etc.
- Power grid modeling, ultra-low-power system architecture and experience with modeling languages like VerilogAMS, VerilogA and VerilogPLI.
PCB hardware:
- Use EDA tools for schematic entry, layout and PCB parasitic extraction.
- Participate in PMIC package, pinout, PCB stackup as well as external passive component definition and selection
Verification:
- Writing C#/F# code on an advanced test platform to generate programs that test/verify the functionality and performance of very complex analog and mixed-signal power systems.
- Work with common lab equipment such as power supplies, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, JTAG debugger, frequency counters, etc.
Minimum Qualifications:• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 3+ years of Software, Hardware, Electrical, Systems, or related engineering work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 2+ years of Software, Hardware, Electrical, Systems, or related engineering work experience.
OR
PhD in in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 2+ years of academic or professional experience using one or more of the following: IC design tools, PCB design tools, SPICE, MATLAB, Verilog/VHDL, C, Python.tools, PCB design tools, SPICE, MATLAB, Verilog/VHDL, C, Python.
Required for this Role:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or relative field
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering and 3 years of professional experience in power system design or PhD in Electrical Engineering with a focus on power system design.
- academic or industrial experience in the designing and verifying full-custom power management circuits, systems and chipsets with multiple voltage domains in BiCMOS, bipolar, and CMOS technologies for medium to highly integrated applications.
- Specific experience in high current monolithic DC-DC converters and switch mode battery chargers along with strength in device physics, ultra-low-power design techniques and lab skills are also essential.
- Knowledge in automotive electronics safety circuit
- Knowledge in power, mixed-signal, or analog PCB design and debug including CAD interface.
- System level design of analog and mixed-signal PMICs
- DC-DC converter operational and design principles
- Ultra-low-power system architecture
Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits: $111,300.00 - $166,900.00
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.
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