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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

NPU STA/Timing Engineer - Hardware Engineering

Silicon & ASIC DesignPosted on Nov 11
Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, 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 2 years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience; alternatively, a Master's degree in those fields and at least 1 year of related experience, or a PhD in those fields.
  • B.Tech or MTech/MS in Electrical/Electronics/Microelectronics/VLSI.
  • Experience in design automation using TCL, Perl, or Python.
  • Familiarity with digital-flow design implementation from RTL to GDS, including ICC, Innovus, and PT/Tempus.
  • Familiarity with process technology enablement, circuit simulations using Hspice/FineSim, and Monte Carlo.
  • Strong expertise in STA timing-analysis fundamentals, AOCV/POCV concepts, CTS, defining and managing timing constraints, latch transparency, and 0-cycle and multi-cycle path handling.
  • Hands-on experience with PrimeTime and Tempus STA tools.
  • Experience driving timing convergence at chip and hard-macro levels.
  • In-depth knowledge of crosstalk noise, signal integrity, layout parasitic extraction, and feed-through handling.
  • Knowledge of ASIC backend design flows, methods, and tools, including ICC2 and Innovus.
  • Knowledge of Spice simulation using Hspice/FineSim and Monte Carlo, and silicon-to-Spice model correlation.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages, including TCL, Perl, and Awk.
  • Basic knowledge of device physics.
  • Strong technical writing and communication skills, and willingness to work in a cross-collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

  • Set up, converge, review, and sign off STA for multi-mode, multi-voltage-domain designs.
  • Perform timing analysis, validation, and debugging across multiple PVT conditions using PT/Tempus.
  • Run PrimeTime and/or Tempus for STA flow optimization and Spice-to-STA correlation.
  • Evaluate timing methodologies and tools across different designs and technology nodes.
  • Develop automation scripts within STA/PD tools for methodology development.

Desired Qualifications

  • 5–15 years of experience in STA/timing.

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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