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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

PDK Extraction Lead Engineer - Hardware Engineering

Hardware EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Minimum 5 years of experience in a hands-on PDK role.
  • Expertise in Calibre or ICV runset coding for DRC, LVS, ERC, PERC, ESD, latch-up, and antenna checks.
  • Experience developing and customizing StarRC, Calibre-xACT, or QRC parasitic extraction flows.
  • Deep understanding of DRC and LVS runsets, including writing them from scratch or modifying existing runsets.
  • Proficiency integrating and setting up Calibre LVS with StarRC, QRC, and other extraction tools.
  • Understanding of digital, custom, and analog requirements for post-layout electrical flows.
  • Hands-on experience with field solvers and RC reduction tools.
  • Knowledge of deep sub-micron FinFET, planar, SOI, and PMIC process technologies and mask layout design.
  • Proficiency in one or more of SKILL, Python, Unix, Perl, or Tcl.
  • Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or a related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience; or master's degree in those fields and 2+ years of such experience; or PhD in those fields and 1+ year of such experience.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and improve all aspects of physical verification flows and methodology as a member of the Physical Verification CAD team.
  • Code custom checks, including layout or programmable ERCs, custom devices in LVS, and custom DRCs, to meet design-team needs.
  • Revamp, rewrite, and streamline the PEX flow.
  • Develop custom transistor-level extraction solutions to meet design-team needs.
  • Support design teams in solving PEX challenges.
  • Support design teams in solving physical verification challenges to facilitate IP releases and chip tapeouts.
  • Collaborate with tool vendors and foundries to improve tools and flows.

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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