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Staff/Sr. Staff RTL Design Engineer - QGOV

Nuvia

Nuvia

Design
San Diego, CA, USA
USD 164k-246k / year + Equity
Posted on Oct 17, 2025
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Job Description

Job Posting Date

2025-10-16


Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Role:

As a Design Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in shaping cutting-edge digital designs. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Micro-Architecture: Designing micro-architecture for both simple and complex digital, interface blocks.
  • RTL Development: Developing RTL (Register Transfer Level) code using industry best practices. This includes handling multi-clock designs, high-frequency requirements, low power, and low latency considerations while ensuring high performance.
  • Debugging and Post-Silicon Bring-Up: Troubleshooting and debugging issues during the development process and supporting post-silicon bring-up activities.
  • Documentation: Creating comprehensive design documentation to ensure clarity and maintainability.
  • Design Optimization: Optimizing designs for key metrics such as area, power, and performance.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including DFT (Design for Testability), Implementation, Verification, Emulation, and Firmware teams.

**Must be in San Diego full time, 5 days a week

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

** Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to receive a U.S. Government security clearance **

Ideal candidate will have:

  • 6-10+ years of work experience with RTL/FPGA design (Verilog, System verilog), embedded system architecture and Verification
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
    OR
    Master's degree in computer science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 5+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
    OR
    PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Positive Attitude: Bring a fun-loving attitude and a passion for inclusively solving problems.
  • Experience: 5+ years of ASIC design experience
  • RTL Expertise: System Verilog Design, Linting, CDC, Synthesis (FPGA and ASIC)
  • Testing: Building the test suites for design validation
  • Emulation: understanding of Emulation and prototyping flows for the design and validation in Lab is a big Plus.
  • Complex Digital Logic Design: Experience with designing complex digital logic blocks and sub systems (CPU, GPU, DSP, Always on Systems, Digital interfaces (PCIe, UART, I2c, DDRx, SPI, USB).
  • ISA Familiarity: Knowledge of ISAs (Instruction Set Architectures) such as ARM THUMB or RISC-V.
  • Processor/Microcontroller System Design: Understanding of processor or microcontroller system design.
  • Multi-Power Domain and Multi-Clock Domain Designs: Experience with designs spanning multiple power domains and clock domains.
  • Scripting/Automation Languages: Proficiency in scripting or automation languages like Python or Perl.
  • Industry Standard Digital Tools: Familiarity with state-of-the-art industry-standard digital design tools.
  • Challenges of Lower Node Technologies: Awareness of challenges faced when working with lower node technologies.

If you’re excited about pushing the boundaries of digital design and collaborating with diverse teams, we encourage you to apply!

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

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EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$164,000.00 - $246,000.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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