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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

Graphics – GPU - Hardware Project Engineer, GPU ASICs Engineering

Hardware Systems IntegrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSan Diego, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of combined hardware, software, or systems engineering or related work experience. A Master's degree in the stated fields reduces the experience requirement by one year, and a PhD reduces it by one additional year; Qualcomm hardware/software engineering experience counts as 1.5 times the stated experience.
  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, plus at least 8 years of software engineering, hardware engineering, systems engineering, or related work experience; or a Master's degree in one of those fields, plus at least 7 years; or a PhD in one of those fields, plus at least 6 years.
  • Strong communication across face-to-face conversations, Teams chats and meetings, PowerPoint, and email.
  • Comfort participating in technical discussions across software, hardware, systems, and productization domains.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with engineering teams inside and outside GPU hardware to define, execute, and deliver GPUs to products.
  • Act as the technical liaison between GPU hardware engineering and product management, understanding each side's challenges and encouraging communication, cooperation, collaboration, and compromise.
  • Participate in product and roadmap planning with product management and engineering using cost-benefit analysis and trade-offs, such as non-recurring engineering versus average unit cost.
  • Contribute to the strategic direction of GPU cores, including research, architecture, and feature sets, for long-term success.
  • Learn new technical domains, topics, products, methods, and markets involving GPU and application processor technologies, from transistors and tools to competing ecosystem solutions.
  • Own technology development, execution, and communication across technology teams.
  • Drive industry best practices for ASIC engineering, including efficient development across large-scale worldwide teams.
  • Resolve key technical issues across teams to improve efficiency and deliver the best product possible.
  • Organize and drive technical meetings for brainstorming, problem solving, tiger teams, summits, and system-level design reviews.
  • Ensure proposals are vetted and filed for potential patent applications.
  • Interact daily with worldwide team members, onsite and online, to ensure progress and identify issues early.
  • Drive resolution of conflicts and trade-offs within and outside the GPU team through technical priorities.
  • Respond to requests and queries from the business unit, chipset project engineers, chipset and GPU product management, and customers.
  • Represent the GPU engineering team in system-on-chip forums and upper-management meetings and discussions, including written and verbal communication.
  • Communicate technical solutions and options internally and externally to chipset, customer, and counterpart teams as needed.
  • Attend key meetings, online and onsite, relevant to the technical discussions.
  • Conduct engineering risk and impact analysis to support decisions.
  • Drive and mandate quality goals in conjunction with program management.
  • Ensure the product meets or exceeds market needs as defined by product management.
  • Take measured risks when necessary to compete effectively in the relevant market.
  • Define and deliver innovative ideas and initiatives, and pursue broadly defined self-guided opportunities.
  • Follow defined processes and drive process improvements as needed based on experience.
  • Establish single points of truth and reference while minimizing single points of failure in processes.
  • Contribute to lessons learned and project retrospectives from the technical management perspective.
  • Actively support diversity within teams and the company.

Desired Qualifications

  • At least 15 years of combined hardware, software, or systems engineering or related work experience, subject to the stated degree and Qualcomm experience adjustments.
  • At least 5 years of graphics hardware (GPU) work experience or equivalent applicable knowledge.
  • At least 2 years as a project engineer or system architect on projects with more than 50 contributors.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate business goals into technology requirements and product design to achieve those goals.
  • Ability to independently identify issues and risks, then define and deploy plans to address or mitigate them.
  • Strong focus and engagement in ensuring successful projects and meeting or exceeding goals despite obstacles.
  • Strong knowledge and experience across ASIC design flow, including architecture, microarchitecture, RTL, modeling, verification, synthesis, and physical design in leading technology nodes.
  • Deep knowledge in at least one aspect of the listed ASIC design flow.
  • The breadth of ownership versus support in the role depends on candidate qualifications and business needs.

About the Company

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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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