SRAM/Memory CAD Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

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

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