Chipset Architect

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems 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 Chipset Architect, you will research, design, develop, simulate, and/or validate systems-level hardware, software, architecture, algorithms, and solutions that enables the development of cutting-edge technology. Qualcomm Systems Engineers collaborate across functional teams to meet and exceed system-level requirements and standards.

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 12+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 10+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
 

Preferred Qualifications:

•    Master's Degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field. 

•    15+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience. 

• Expert knowledge of interfaces (USB, PCIe, SD/eMMC, UFS, LPDDRx, CSI, DSI, SPI, I2C, I3C, PMBUS, SPMI, Slimbus etc)

•    10+ years of experience working in PC or IoT industry;

• Knowledge of commercial, industrial and home automation systems

• Experience with full product lifecycle from requirements gathering, prototype development, production, knowledge of PCB design flow, EDA tools, electrical and thermal simulations.

• Familiarity with software stack and hardware-software dependencies including HLOS, drivers, kernel, BIOS

• Familiarity with certification, shock and vibration testing and EMI compliance

• In depth knowledge of power delivery, PDN, component selection, tuning, PMICs, eBOM

• Good domain knowledge of 2 or more functional areas of SoCs such as Application Processor, Display, Graphics, Camera, Video, AI, Modem (4G/5G), WLAN, Power Management etc.

• Exposure to 4G/5G/6G systems and associated cellular standards (e.g. 3GPP NR, LTE).

• Working with a wide cross functional team comprising of various design and software teams, reliability, functional safety, business, sales and customer engineering

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

•    Applies Systems knowledge to evaluate Industrial customer asks and propose chipset solutions utilizing Qualcomm ICs.

•    Develops and analyzes system level design including requirements, interface definition, functional/performance definition, and implementation of a new system or modification of an existing system.

•    Evaluates interface signaling for clock, data, sideband requirements and propose solution with internal and third-party components.

•    Evaluates signal integrity needs and identifies architecture for high-speed interfaces, topologies (stacked boards, different form factors etc), timing needs, and signal conditioning techniques.

•    Understand power requirements and propose suitable powering schemes for the entire platform.

•    Collaborates with own team and other teams to complete project work, including implementing and testing features and verifying the accuracy of systems.

•    Performs functional analysis to drive requirements and specifications and to define and align with standards for hardware and software.

•    Reviews internal and customer board schematics

•    Develops new and innovative ideas (e.g. IDFs) for a product or feature area.

•    Drives triage of problems at the system level to determine root cause and presents results of testing and debugging to team members.

Level of Responsibility:

•    Works independently with minimum supervision.

•    Decision-making may affect work beyond immediate work group.

•    Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey information. May require basic negotiation, influence, tact, etc. 

•    Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to make key decisions).

•    Tasks require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; some planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

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