Qualcomm

SoC Power Design Engineer (Engineer - Staff Eng)

Qualcomm$140K — $210K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 4+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years, or a PhD with 2+ years
  • Experience in ASIC frontend development
  • Proficiency in logic design, RTL coding, verification, synthesis, and timing closure
  • Familiarity with hardware description languages such as Verilog, VHDL, System Verilog
  • Knowledge of power-aware implementation flow including UPF/CPF/Conformal Low Power Check
  • Scripting skills in Perl/Tcl/Python

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with frontend RTL, DFT, synthesis, and physical design teams to develop power intent design at SoC level
  • Generate and validate power intent design (UPF) at SoC level
  • Review and guide IP designers in achieving power intent design that complies with low power requirements
  • Work with design verification to validate low power design features at both SoC and IP levels
  • Enhance existing power flows and tools by collaborating with company CAD and vendors
  • Improve power design flows focusing on power modeling, clock power analysis, and structural validation
  • Perform power analysis/projection of baseline SoC power and deliver power models to chipset

Benefits

  • Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
  • Opportunity for annual RSU grants
  • Comprehensive support benefits designed for work-life balance
  • Health and wellness programs
  • Ongoing professional development opportunities
Full Job Description
General Summary:

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.

Qualcomm's Global SoC Power team is currently seeking candidate whose primary role is to implement and validate low power design intent requirements at the SoC-level. The candidate will work with frontend RTL, DFT, Synthesis, Design Verification and Physical Design teams during the SoC development. The role also expands to power analysis and projection of SoC Use Case power this may include creating power models and power dashboard for SoC level power targets. The candidate will have the opportunity to work with IP designers, power target (Chipset/SW) teams, and Post-Silicon test teams to jointly ensure power intent design requirements and power projections are fully validated from pre-silicon to silicon and post-silicon power optimization..

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering plus:
  • ASIC frontend development
  • Logic design, RTL coding, verification, synthesis, and timing closure
  • Hardware description languages (Verilog, VHDL, System Verilog)
  • Power-aware implementation flow, including UPF/CPF/Conformal Low Power Check
  • Scripting - Perl/Tcl/Python


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Experience with/in:
  • Familiarity of overall SoC Infrastructure - DDR, Busses, CPUs, I/Os and DFT Components
  • Familiarity of power islands, power gating, power sequencing and multi-voltage domain design
  • Power analysis familiarity in areas of clocktree, peak power, TDP, limits management


Responsibilities/Duties:
  • Work with frontend RTL, DFT, Synthesis, and Physical design teams in the development of power intent design at SoC level
  • Generate and validate power intent design (UPF) at SoC level
  • Review designs and guide IP designers' power intent design ensuring it meets SoC level low power implementation requirements
  • Work with design verification in validating low power design featurs at SoC and IP level.
  • Collaborate with company CAD and vendor to enhance existing power flows and tools
  • Improve power design flows in areas of power modeling, clock power analysis, structural power validation, IP power intent QA
  • Execute power-aware implementation flow, including UPF/CPF/Conformal Low Power Check
  • Review IP design's power features and power budgets/estimates
  • Track IP power development through the design cycle ensuring it meets power budgets - leakage/dynamic at every milestone
  • Perform power analysis/projection of SoC baseline power and deliver SoC power models to chipset
  • Execute power simulation/analysis -- (PtPx/PowerArtist/Prime Power/PowerPro)


Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$140,000.00 - $210,000.00

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 - 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.

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