Cross-Functional Engineer, Staff

Qualcomm; Toronto; On-site; CAD 181,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Canada ULC is seeking a Cross-Functional Engineer to design, analyze, and optimize high-speed SerDes, focusing on analog modelling and verification. You will collaborate with digital verification, firmware, and silicon validation teams to ensure proper interaction across analog and digital domains.

The role welcomes candidates at various experience levels, with compensation and career growth aligned to interview assessment. Equal opportunity employer with accessible processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 2+ years in analog/mixed-signal design or 4+ years in ASIC design/verification.
• Master’s or PhD with relevant ASIC design/verification experience may apply.
• Experience using CADENCE, SPICE, MATLAB, and Verilog/VHDL for design/verification.

Responsibilities

• Analog and mixed-signal modeling and verification for design and system-level simulations.
• Design calibration algorithms to optimize performance and yield.
• Analog verification at higher abstraction levels and power estimation.
• System verification with digital verification and firmware teams.
• Silicon validation support and post-silicon model correlation.
• Collaborate on power model development and post-silicon measurement correlation.
• Provide technical mentorship to engineers in analog modeling and verification.

Skills

High-speed SerDes architecture

Analog/mixed-signal modeling

SystemVerilog

Digital design verification

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

PhD in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence

SPICE

MATLAB

Verilog/VHDL

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Analog Mixed Signal Design

General Summary:

Qualcomm builds industry-leading wired connectivity solutions that enable data to travel faster, more reliably, and with higher performance at lower power. Our technology is embedded in leading-edge semiconductors built to power global network and computer systems. It is an essential part of the core infrastructure enabling next generation services in data centers, artificial intelligence, 5G wireless infrastructure, data networking, autonomous vehicles, and solid-state storage. Replacement Position

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering with 2+ years of experience with analog or mixed-signal integrated circuit design in nanometer planar CMOS or FinFET and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
  OR Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
  OR PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field and 2+ of years ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.


• 2+ years of experience using one or more design tools (e.g., CADENCE, SPICE, MATLAB, and/or Verilog/VHDL).

Cross-Functional Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Cross-Functional Engineer to join our team, focusing on high-speed electrical wireline systems (e.g. SerDes). The successful candidate will play a critical role in designing, analyzing, and optimizing high-performance interconnects, ensuring accurate analog modelling, mixed-signal system verification, analog calibration, and power estimation working collaboratively with digital verification, firmware, and silicon validation engineers for high-speed SerDes designs.

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. Our offers will align with the level during the interview assessment.

What You’ll Do

• Analog and mixed-signal modeling: Oversee the development and verification of behavioral models for analog and mixed-signal circuits to support design and system-level simulations


• Analog calibration: Collaborate with analog design, digital design, and firmware teams to define and implement calibration algorithms for analog/mixed-signal blocks, optimizing performance and yield


• Analog verification: Simulate analog subsystems at higher levels of abstraction to confirm functionality as well as confirm other design characteristics (power, aging performance, EMIR, etc.)


• System verification: Work closely with digital verification and firmware engineers to ensure proper interaction between analog, digital, and firmware components including register programming, initialization sequences, power-up calibration, power state changes, and data rate changes


• Silicon validation support: Collaborate with silicon validation engineers to support silicon bring-up activities and to correlate pre-silicon models with post-silicon measurements, improving model accuracy and debugging issues


• Power Estimation: Collaborate with analog and digital program leads to develop and maintain power models that accurately track power dissipation across data rate, operating conditions, and power states of high-speed SerDes, and then correlate post-silicon measurements with these power model predicted results


• Technical mentorship: Guide and mentor engineers in analog behavioral modeling, mixed-signal verification techniques, calibration approaches, and power estimation fostering innovation and technical excellence

What You’ll Need

• Strong background in high-speed (106Gbps and higher) SerDes architecture, modelling, and verification


• Proficiency in SystemVerilog and behavioural modeling techniques for analog and mixed-signal designs


• Knowledge of calibration algorithms, and equalization techniques for SerDes


• Previous experience in either high-speed analog / mixed-signal design or modelling, analog/mixed-signal or digital verification, or post-silicon measurements of complex high-speed wireline systems


• Strong understanding of analog design fundamentals, including analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, clock generation and clock distribution, analog equalizers, and transmitter drivers, including the numerous mixed-signal calibrations of these analog building blocks.


• Experience with EDA tools for schematic entry, and verification.


• Proficiency in digital RTL code (e.g., SystemVerilog language), firmware code (e.g., in C language), and digital verification tools and techniques

It’d Be Amazing If You Had

• Design experience with one or more of the following circuit blocks: continuous time linear equalizer, slicer, high-speed ADC, voltage-controlled oscillator, phase interpolator, bandgap reference, voltage regulator, serializer, deserializer, voltage/current-mode transmitter, phase-locked loop, phase detector


• Hands-on experience with SPICE simulators, AMS simulation tools (Cadence, Synopsys, or equivalent)


• Familiarity with IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) and OIF standards


• Scripting knowledge (Python, Matlab, etc.) for automation of power estimation and system verification


• Proficiency in using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, TDR, VNA, and spectrum analyzers

About You

• Customer focused


• Excellent communication skills


• Able to listen to and appreciate ideas and opinions that differ from yours


• Able to multi-task and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment


• Extremely detail oriented


• Superb analytical and problem-solving skills


• Drives for consistency


• Takes personal pride in high standard of outputs


• Self-motivated and self-managing

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$129,600.00 - $179,600.00

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.