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Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering General Summary: As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. Roles and Responsibilities Work closely with CAD and custom macro/memory design leads to understand the design methodology and high level requirements and develop flows. Develop efficient analysis and model generation methodologies for timing and noise to achieve tight correlation. Determine key areas where automation and leading methodologies can help improve PPA. Define, innovate and implement new infrastructure capabilities that can be used to accelerate design and development, and improve user experience. Preferred qualifications MS degree in Computer Engineering; 5+ years of practical experience Strong skills in transistor level signoff tools for timing, emir, simulations, extraction and IPQA. Experience in flow development at high scale (multithreading, ml capabilities, hyperscaling, schedulers, filer hot-spot management etc.). Direct experience with efficient visualization tools to analyze results, log parsers, web views, error/warning scanners etc. Strong fundamentals in scripting languages (python, tcl, sh. others), automation, general purpose CAD infrastructure and flows. Good understanding of stdcell or memory design fundamentals. Excellent partner collaborating with design team in flow debug and support. Experience with signing off accuracy and correlation of analysis flows (compare to spice, foundry models, etc.) Tool knowledge in any of these is a plus- nanotime, xa/spectre, liberate, primelib, totem Applicants Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries). Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law. To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications. If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
