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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

NPU RTL Design Engineer - DSP Architecture and Design

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

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, or a related field, and 2 or more years of Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience; alternatively, a Master's degree in those fields and 1 or more year of related work experience, or a PhD in those fields.
  • At least 2 years of experience with high-performance microprocessor design.
  • A Master's degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering is preferred.
  • At least 2 years of practical experience with RTL development, including functional and structural RTL design in SystemVerilog, design partitioning, simulation and regression, and collaboration with a design verification team.
  • Familiarity with design tools such as linting, clock domain crossing, logic equivalence checking, and constraint-based low-power design tools is preferred.
  • Experience with processor integration, bus interfaces, and computer architecture is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

  • Work with the system architecture team to define microarchitecture documentation for blocks in Hexagon/NPU and its subsystems.
  • Develop RTL for multiple logic blocks of Hexagon/NPU and its subsystems for system-on-chip integration.
  • Run frontend tools to check linting, clock domain crossing, power intent, and related design properties.
  • Work with the physical design team on design constraints and timing closure.
  • Optimize area and power.
  • Collaborate with the verification team on test plans, test debugging, coverage plans, and coverage closure.
  • Support internal hardware integration.
  • Develop ideas and advance innovation in ASICs, IP cores, and process flows.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with processor integration, bus interfaces, and computer architecture is highly desirable.

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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