Design Implementation Senior Engineer, Lead

Job Posting Date

2025-10-10

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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 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.

Requirements:

• Looking for a highly talented and a technically strong leader with an eye for quality to lead a high performing and talented team of engineers in the implementation domain for Display Sub-System.
• Able to handle multiple project execution that are time critical and complex
• Able to communicate effectively with all stakeholders across the organization
• Able to collaborate with cross functional teams for upholding the best practices and enabling smooth execution
• Focus on improving execution efficiency and improve on the optimizations in area, power and performance.
• Able to grow the team in terms of technical depth and size as we do more and more projects
• Able to innovate and bring fresh ideas
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering with 6+ Years of experience.
• 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, 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 synthesis and optimization.
• Should have good understanding of low-power design implementation using UPF.
• Experience with scripting language such as Perl/ Python, TCL.
• Experience with different power optimization flows or technique such as clock gating.
• Should be able to work independently with design, DFT and PD team for netlist delivery, timing constraints validation
• Should be able to handle ECOs and formal verification and maintain high quality matrix

Responsibilities include:

• Synthesis, LEC, Low power checks, Memory BIST insertion, Constraints validation.
• Development of signoff quality constraints and the development of power intent constraints.
• May also include running RTL Lint, CLP, MEMBIST, DFT DRC etc.

• TCL script development in addition to running/analyzing/debugging designs.
• Hands on with Synopsys DCG/Genus/Fusion Compiler.
• Hands on with Synopsys Prime Time including constraint development for complex blocks with multiple clock domains.
• Hands on with Cadence Conformal LEC and Cadence Conformal Low Power including UPF development
• Experience with either RTL development or Physical Design is also a plus

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