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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

GPU Power Engineer - Hardware Engineering

Silicon & ASIC DesignConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNoida, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or a related field and at least 4 years of hardware engineering or related work experience; alternatively, a Master's degree in one of those fields and at least 3 years of experience, or a PhD in one of those fields and at least 2 years of experience.
  • At least 8 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or a Master's degree.
  • Understand RTL power optimization fundamentals, including switching activity, clock/enable efficiency, and common low-power design patterns at the RTL level.
  • Be familiar with RTL power analysis and optimization using PowerArtist, PTPX, PowerPro, or equivalent tools.
  • Be familiar with low-power design techniques, including clock gating, power gating, and managing dynamic versus leakage power tradeoffs.
  • Know emulation power flow and methodology.
  • Know backend flows such as logic synthesis and place-and-route, and how RTL decisions affect post-layout power and timing.
  • Have hands-on experience debugging RTL or gate-level power anomalies and identifying root-cause structures or scenarios.
  • Have strong Python programming skills for building automation scripts, data pipelines, and AI/ML-driven analysis flows for RTL power optimization.
  • Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills using a data-driven approach.
  • Have written and verbal communication skills for documenting designs, methodologies, and best practices.
  • Be able to collaborate in a fast-paced, global team environment and navigate ambiguity.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to power optimization efforts for GPU blocks and subsystems to improve energy efficiency for Qualcomm next-generation GPUs.
  • Perform power efficiency and performance-per-watt analysis for GPUs using industry-standard benchmarks and games, from early feature specification through silicon.
  • Partner with hardware, software, and system-level design teams to support architectural, microarchitectural, and RTL-level power optimization strategies.

Desired Qualifications

  • Have knowledge of graphics architecture.
  • Have knowledge of OpenGL and/or Vulkan API libraries.

About the Company

Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

Qualcomm designs the Snapdragon processors and modems inside many Android phones, and it licenses its wireless patents to device makers around the world. It helped commercialize CDMA, the cellular technology behind 3G networks, and its patents cover core parts of the 4G and 5G standards that phones use to connect. The company does not run its own chip factories; contract foundries make its chips, which it sells to makers of phones, PCs, cars, and connected devices. Device makers also pay Qualcomm royalties for using its patented technology, which forms a second business alongside chip sales. Qualcomm was founded in 1985 and is based in San Diego, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Diego, CA
Founded
1985

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