CPU Physical Design Engineer, Senior to Staff

Job Posting Date

2025-08-01

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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 CPU Engineer, you will lead innovative Central Processing Unit (CPU) design efforts that have a critical impact on industries across the world. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, verify, and implement multi-core CPU operations for all Qualcomm Business Units.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

Must have skill/experience

• Experience with Synthesis, place and route and signoff timing/power analysis.
• Knowledge of high performance and low power implementation techniques
• Proficiency in scripting (TCL, Python, Perl)

Preferred qualifications

• MS degree in Electrical Engineering with 4+ years of practical experience.
• Preference for experience in deep submicron process technology nodes.
• Experience in CPU PPA optimization is advantageous.
• Knowledge of library cells and optimizations.
• Solid understanding of industry-standard tools for synthesis, place & route, and tapeout flows.
• Strong data analytical skills to identify and address physical design issues.
• Experience in pre-post silicon correlation

Roles and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (RTL, Physical Design, Circuits, CAD) to address critical physical design challenges in CPU implementations.
• Develop innovative techniques within Physical Design and optimization space to meet stringent PPA targets.
• Coordinate with CPU Software, Architecture, and RTL teams to understand various CPU use cases and propose impactful PPA optimizations.
• Engage with external CAD tool vendors and internal CAD teams to identify and enhance optimization issues related to CPU designs.
• Partner with all block-level implementation teams to analyze, implement, and improve optimization methods relevant to the designs.
• Partner with Process, SoC and Post-silicon teams to analyze, improve design implementations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related work experience.
• OR
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related work experience.
• OR
• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related work experience.

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