High Speed Interfaces Architect

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all.

Qualcomm is looking for an experienced High Speed Interfaces SOC Architect to work on the next generation AI products in the datacenter.

We are looking for a High Speed Interfaces data center engineer whose expertise spans across PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, Unified Accelerator Link (UAL), Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) and Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe) standards

The selected candidate will help define the architecture and drive requirements from card/server level to a full rack.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Responsibilities:

• Understand trends in High Speed interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet and Die-to-Die (D2D) interconnectivity.
• Propose data flow models and work with Software, Firmware and SOC design teams in achieving high bandwidth and low latency for end-to-end data transfers
• Very good understanding of various Layers, such as Physical, Link, Transaction and Protocol layer of High Speed interfaces,
• Work with Software, SOC Design teams and Card design teams in realizing the connectivity for AI Scale Up and Scale Out deployments
• Architect enhancements required for deployment of next-generation AI products

Requirements:

• Deep knowledge and experience with high-performance design of PCIe and/or Ethernet interfaces.
• 10+ years HW design, testing and commercialization experience
• 3+ years of experience of working in datacenter related products - servers, accelerators etc.
• In-depth understanding of Ordering models for PCIe , ARM and High speed Serial interfaces
• Very good understanding or Error scenarios, such as PCIe-AER, PCIE-DPC.
• Very good understanding of IO Virtualization , such as PCIe-SRIOV
• Good knowledge of scale-up and scale-out architectures
• Very good understanding of DMA engines
• Willingness to work in a high-caliber international/multi-site team

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Very good understanding of PCIE Gen6/Gen7 requirements
• Very good understanding of Integrity and Data Encryption such as PCIE-IDE, PCIE-SIOV, PCIE-TDISP
• Very Good knowledge of Ethernet protocols with emphasis on error recovery and virtualization
• Very good understanding of various PCIE-CEM standards for PCIE Card deployments
• Good understanding of new AI standards such as UCIe, UAL and UEC
• Good understanding of PCIE Firmware and System Software requirements
• Good understanding of High Speed Serdes such as PCIE PHY and Ethernet PHY
• Good knowledge of server SOC architectures focusing on security, RAS and virtualization
• Ability to work with Customer, Product Management and gather requirements

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$176,300.00 - $264,500.00

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