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Job Overview:

The Qualcomm Memory Design/Technology Team has an opening in the areas of System PDN and power modeling. The candidate will assess and optimize the high-performance chip and across-chiplet PDN architecture to ensure robust high-performance and low-noise compute. The candidate will assess the best use of on-die, backside, and chiplet interconnect resources to determine the best power grid with minimum overhead to the system fabrics such as high-bandwidth bus, compute cores, and low-noise high-speed IOs for applications spanning high-performance cloud, compute, mobile and IoT. The candidate will work on robust PDN solutions along with power modeling addressing reliability, noise, and performance requirements from PMIC, to the package, and on-die power rail. The candidate is expected to understand the concepts of power distribution network, decoupling capacitance, power integrity, and power modeling. This position offers the opportunity to work across multiple organizations such as process and packaging team, system power team, and global SoC team. Providing timely feedback and updating PDN architecture and design trade-offs to the team is essential.

Responsibilities:

Develop and optimize PDN memory and computing architectures to achieve high density, high TOPS/mm2, and high TOPS/W for mobile, compute, and XR applications
Develop and validate models for power and power density modeling of multiple modules under different workloads
Identify critical power scenarios and provide solutions within the constraints of packaging, floorplan, and PMIC module
Develop PDN models in both time and frequency domain
Simulate and emulate system power behavior on different power scenarios such as power-up, power-down, maximum performance, test/debug, and stand-by
Identify locations of power switches and utilize optimal control mechanisms
Floorplan 2.5/3D PDN under integration manufacturing constraints, testability, repairability, and high performance

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 7+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a related field
Experience in PDN, optimal decoupling capacitance placement, and power modeling
Experience in modeling resonances on chips and 2.5D systems through resistance, inductance, and capacitance extraction
Good knowledge of signal and power integrity, and chiplets
Good knowledge of in the modeling of interconnects, uBumps, TSVs, and package
Good knowledge of cross-power domain structures, clamping, and ESD protection schemes
Good knowledge of PMIC architecture, design, and noise modeling
Proficiency in use of EDA tools such as Voltus, Redhawk, SPICE, Virtuoso
Experience in circuit and system design to model the power architecture
Experience in memory architecture power assessment
Experience in model order reduction of large RLC networks
Familiar with memory architecture
Ability to develop IBIS/Verilog-A/Modeling models of power modeling is strong plus
Familiar in thermal modeling and hotspot mitigation
Experience in programming language (C/C++/Phyton) or scripting language (Perl/Python)
Familiar with high-frequency signal assessment

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$192,000.00 - $288,000.00

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.

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