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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

Video Codec Digital Circuit Design Engineer - ASICS Engineering

Silicon & ASIC DesignConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTaipei City, TaiwanNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, and optimize hardware blocks for video encoding and decoding, including motion estimation, motion compensation, transform/quantization, entropy coding, in-loop filters, and rate-control datapaths.
  • Translate video standard requirements, including H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, AV1, and VVC, into efficient microarchitectures and hardware algorithms, ensuring scalability, configurability, and compliance.
  • Build C, C++, and SystemC models for performance, accuracy, and power estimation; perform algorithm-to-hardware decomposition to guide RTL implementation.
  • Partner with systems and architecture teams to evaluate codec performance and analyze throughput, latency, memory bandwidth, and quality metrics.
  • Collaborate with verification teams to define test plans, functional coverage, and debug infrastructure for robust pre-silicon validation.
  • Drive integration of codec IP into SoC subsystems, ensuring interaction with memory subsystems, firmware interfaces, and NoC/fabric components.
  • Work with physical design teams to meet PPA targets through timing-aware microarchitecture, pipeline optimization, and clock/power-domain planning.
  • Support post-silicon bring-up and validation, analyze real-chip performance, and propose architectural or firmware updates when needed.

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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