Join QCOM Technologies Inc vibrant Global CAD team pushing the limits of Signoff solutions for the Snapdragon chips powering billions of mobile devices. The position requires Signoff Static Timing Analysis (STA) knowledge, with CAD development skills to define and develop tools and methodologies for accuracy, compute, in close collaboration with EDA Vendors and Snapdragon Design teams. Qualcomm is using leading edge internal and EDA technologies in the Signoff domain, including pioneering in genAI/ML, and developing good-by-construction hierarchical solution, as well as enabling the latest STA features to reduce conservatism in Signoff.

This role’s responsibilities will include:

Improving the Signoff Timing methodology for diverse Mobile, Compute, AI, IoT Snapdragon chips.
Participate in the enablement and validation of new methodologies and features. Collaborate with AI team on ground-breaking initiatives for compute and turn-around time reduction.
Interfacing with Synopsys and Cadence EDA Vendors to bring up new STA technologies enabling production-ready tool sets that satisfy project’s requirement, and to follow up on issues faced by the Design and CAD teams on the tools.
Provide solutions to the Snapdragon design teams, analyze their requests, and address their requests through ticket queues.
Setting up, augmenting, and maintaining a regression of complex STA designs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, Masters degree or PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

• Deep knowledge of STA features and Timing concepts.

2-6 years of experience in Signoff Timing of SoCs at either top-level or block-level.

• 2-6 years of experience with scripting tools and programming languages: Python and TCL preferred.

Tools: Experience of Synopsys Primetime STA tool (preferred), or alternatively of Cadence tempus STA tool, or of the timing engines of synthesis and place and route tools.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Participate to the STA flows and features enablement for foundry advanced process nodes, at block, subsystem, and top level, and participate to the STA solutions support to the Snapdragon design community.

• Participate to the enablement of new methodologies and features for turn-around time reduction on various subsystems such as Modem, GPU, CPU, DDR, Camera, Video, NSP.

• Interface and drive EDA vendor Application Engineers on the resolution of Signoff problems faced by the Snapdragon design teams.

• Participate to the specification of new Signoff CAD solutions addressing the PPA requirements of the design teams.

• Deep dive on STA or/and spice issues and establish as a go-to domain expert.

• Participate along with Qualcomm talented AI team to R&D initiatives driving differentiation in terms of compute and turn-around time.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$98,500.00 - $147,700.00

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.

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