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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

CPU Systems RTL Engineer - CPU Engineering

Silicon & ASIC DesignConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSanta Clara, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 4+ years of hardware, software, electrical, systems, or related work experience; or a master's degree in those fields and 3+ years of related work experience; or a PhD in those fields and 2+ years of related work experience.
  • An MS degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering and 5+ years of CPU RTL or similar experience.
  • Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture, including expertise in one or more of timers, interrupt controllers, configuration access protocols, reliability, availability and serviceability and safety aspects, AMU/PMU architecture, active and idle power management architectures, limit and clock architecture, and debug/trace and scan-dump architecture.
  • Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL and experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools.
  • Knowledge of logic design principles and their timing and power implications.

Responsibilities

  • Explore high-performance strategies in collaboration with the CPU modeling team.
  • Develop microarchitecture and specifications, from early high-level architectural exploration through microarchitectural research and detailed specification.
  • Own or participate in developing, assessing, and refining RTL design to meet power, performance, area, and timing goals.
  • Support the design verification team in executing the functional verification strategy.
  • Support verification that the RTL design meets performance goals.
  • Work with the multifunctional engineering team to implement and validate physical design aspects including timing, area, reliability, testability, and power.
  • Work alongside software, firmware, and platform teams to enable CPU systems features in products.

Desired Qualifications

  • Understand low-power microarchitecture techniques.
  • Understand high-performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture.
  • Have experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python.

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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