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Qualcomm India Private Limited

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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 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

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Master\'s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
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PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. Qualcomm GPU team is actively seeking candidates for several Physical Design, STA/Timing Sign-off and methodologies development positions. Graphics HW team in Bangalore is part of a worldwide team responsible for developing and delivering GPU solutions which are setting the benchmark in mobile computing industry. Team is involved in Architecture, Design, Verification, implementation and Productization of GPU IP COREs that go into Qualcomm Snapdragon SOC Products used in Smartphone, Compute, Automotive, AR/VR and other low power devices. Qualcomm has strong portfolio of GPU COREs and engineers get an opportunity to work with world class engineering team that leads industry through innovation and disciplined execution. As a PD/STA engineer you will innovate, develop, and implement chips and cores using state-of-the-art tools and technologies. You will be part of a team responsible for the complete Physical Design Flow and deliveries of complex, high-speed, low power COREs. Job Responsibilities include:

• Floorplanning, power planning, IR drop analysis, placement, multi-mode & multi-corner (MMMC) clock tree synthesis, routing, timing optimization and closure, RC extraction, signal integrity, cross talk noise and delay analysis,
• Implementing timing fixes, rolling in functional ECOs, debugging and fixing violations and formal verification.
• Low power implementation methods, customized P&R to achieve area reduction and performance goals
• Constraint development, Static Timing Analysis (STA), Power Estimation and driving clock tree synthesis.
• Create design of experiments and do detailed PPA comparison analysis to improve quality of results, tuning recipes and setting course for the projects going forward.
• Good understanding of functional, test (DFT) mode constraints for place and route,
• Work closely with RTL design, DFT, PD Implementation, Power teams to optimize Performance, Power and Area (PPA) for best PPA

As a Graphics physical design engineer, you will innovate, develop, and implement GPU cores using state-of-the-art tools and technologies. You will be part of a team responsible for the complete Physical Design Flow and deliveries of complex, high-speed, low power GPU COREs. Tasks also involve the development and enablement of low power implementation methods, customized P&R to achieve area reduction and performance goals. Additional responsibilities in this role involves good understanding of functional, test (DFT) mode constraints for place and route, floorplanning, power planning, IR drop analysis, placement, multi-mode & multi-corner (MMMC) clock tree synthesis, routing, timing optimization and closure, RC extraction, signal integrity, cross talk noise and delay analysis, debugging timing violations for multi-mode and multi-corner designs, implementing timing fixes, rolling in functional ECOs, debugging and fixing violations and formal verification. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor\'s/Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering or related field from reputed Univ 9+ years IC Design experience or related work experience in leading block level or chip level Timing closure & Physical Design activities. Minimum Requirements:

• Physical Implementation activities for high performance Cores, which includes Floor-planning, Place and Route, CTS, Formal verification, Physical Verification (DRC/LVS), PDN, Timing Closure and power optimization.
• Well versed with the Block level and Interface timing closure (STA) methodologies, ECO generation and predictable convergence.
• Should have good exposure to PD implementation of PPA critical Cores and making right PPA trade-off decisions.
• Well versed with the Block level PnR convergence with Synopsys ICC2/ Cadence Innovus and timing convergence in PTSI/Tempus in latest technology nodes
• Should be able work in close collaboration with design, DFT and PD teams and resolve issues wrt constraints validation, verification, STA, Physical design, etc.
• Good understanding of clocking architecture.
• Circuit level comprehension of timing critical paths in the design; Understanding of deep sub-micron design problems and solutions (Skew analysis, clock divergence, signal integrity etc.)
• Strong problem-solving skills and good communication skills.

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