Synthesis Engineer, Staff

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.

Role: Hardware Engineer (Physical Synthesis/Timing)

Key Responsibilities & Expertise

• Should have

  strong understanding and in-depth knowledge of Physical Synthesis and Synthesis methodologies

  with leading industry standard tools.
• Experience with writing

  timing constraints for synthesis, STA (Static Timing Analysis), timing closure and pipelining

  at different levels for performance optimization and timing closure.
• Experience in all aspects of

  timing closure for multi-clock domain designs

  .
• Should be familiar with

  MCMM (Multi-Corner Multi-Mode) synthesis and optimization

  .
• Should have good understanding of

  low-power design implementation using UPF (Unified Power Format)

  .
• Should be able to work independently with design, DFT (Design-for-Test) and PD (Physical Design) team for netlist delivery, timing constraints validation.
• Should be able to handle

  ECOs (Engineering Change Orders)

  and

  formal verification

  and maintain high quality matrix.

Required Skills

• Experience with scripting language such as

  Perl/Python, TCL

  .
• Experience with different

  power optimization flows or techniques such as clock gating

  .

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree

  in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and

  4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

• OR Master's degree

  in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and

  3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

• OR PhD

  in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and

  2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.