Design Implementation Engineer, Staff

Nuvia

Nuvia

Design
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Dec 11, 2025


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, F

  • Network-on-chip (NoC)/ Interconnect implementation for the next generation System-on-chip (SoC) for smartphones, notebooks, smart glasses, tablets and other product categories. The roles and responsibilities for this position includes but not limited to:-
    • Design implementation for Next-gen Qualcomm coherent and non-coherent interconnect fabric
    • Responsible for Floor planning, design optimization for synthesis and PD for all the Qualcomm interconnects
    • Partner with NoC design team to improve micro architecture to ensure the design meets all implementation requirements.
    • Actively work with SoC Architecture, physical design team, Soc Floorplan, core teams and various other interconnect teams in various other sites
    • Will be part of BDC infrastructure (NoC/Interconnect) core team
    • Working with design and DFT teams on understanding design in context of physical design timing closure and power optimization
    • Working across teams to align on important areas of PPA improvement and ensure targets are met; ensures designs are innovative and compatible with highest standards.
    • Manage SoC dependencies, planning and tracking of all back-end design related tasks

GA, 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 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
  • 10+ years of solid experience in IP/SoC implementation
  • Expertise in digital flow design implementation RTL to GDS
  • Knowledge of ASIC back-end design flows and methods and tools (Design compiler,PrimeTime, ICC2, Innovus, )
  • understanding of STA and timing closure methodologies, including effect on congestion/routing/power.
  • Knowledge of entire PD flow from netlist to GDS (Floorplanning, Power planning, Placement/CTS/Routing and corresponding optimization steps).
  • Have experience in driving timing convergence at Chip-level and Hard-Macro level
  • Understanding of interconnect protocols like CHI/AHB/AXI/ACE/ACE-Lite/NoC concepts
  • knowledge of Digital Design and RTL development
  • Understanding of multi-core ARMv8/v9 CPU architecture, coherency protocols and virtualization.
  • Working knowledge of Lint, CDC, PLDRC, CLP etc
  • Good understanding of the design convergence cycle in terms of architecture, micro-architecture, synthesis, timing closure and verification
  • Experience in driving the project milestones across the design, verification and physical implementations
  • Should possess effective communication and leadership skills
  • Experience in design automation using TCL/Perl/Python.

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