SOC Design Engineer

Qualcomm; Markham; On-site; CAD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Canada ULC is seeking an ASIC Engineer to define, model, design and optimize IP for high performance, low power products. You will work across RTL, verification, and PD teams to ensure convergence and deliver robust IP blocks for next generation SoCs.

The role requires strong RTL coding in Verilog/VHDL/SV, experience with UPF and power-domain crossing, and a track record in low-power design and cross-domain timing challenges. Join a global leader in semiconductor innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years ASIC design experience.
• Master’s degree with 3+ years ASIC design experience.
• PhD with 2+ years ASIC design experience.
• Experience with VLSI development cycle and multiple tools.
• Ability to collaborate with verification, synthesis and PD teams.

Responsibilities

• Digital design and development (RTL) with multi-site leads across US and India.
• Develop micro architecture and implement with Verilog/SV, delivering complex SoC subsystems.
• Design and implement defined tasks independently.
• Coordinate with Systems, Verification, SoC, SW, PD & DFT teams.
• Analyze reports/waivers or run tools like Spyglass, 0-in, DC-Compiler, PrimeTime.

Skills

RTL design

Verilog

VHDL

SV

Power domain crossing

UPF

AXI bus

Synthesis

I2C

SPI

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science/Engineering

Master's degree in Science/Engineering

PhD in Science/Engineering

Tools

Cadence LEC

Spyglass

DC-Compiler

PrimeTime

Job description

Company: Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm ASIC Engineer, you will define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for a variety of high performance, high quality, low power world class products. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional groups to determine product execution path.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• OR
• Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• OR
• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Candidate will be responsible for design/developing next generation power control systems. Candidate will be working on ASIC based on the latest technology nodes. This role will require the candidate to understand and work on all aspects of VLSI development cycle like architecture, micro architecture, RTL design along with interactions with verification, Synthesis & PD teams for design convergence.

Responsibilities

• Digital design and development (RTL) working in close collaboration with Multi-site leads across US and India
• Developing the micro architecture and implementing the design using Verilog/SV. Integrate and deliver complex subsystem to SoC
• Design and implement defined tasks independently.
• Work in close coordination with Systems, Verification, SoC team , SW team, PD & DFT teams to get the goals completed.
• Analyze reports/waivers or run various tools : Spyglass, 0-in, DC-Compiler, Prime time, synthesis, simulation etc.

Skills/Experience Sr Engineer / Staff Engineer

• 5 to 8 years of strong experience in digital front end design for ASICs
• Expertise in RTL coding in Verilog/VHDL/SV of complex designs with multiple clock domains and multiple power domains
• Familiar with UPF and power domain crossing
• Familiarity with various bus protocols like AHB, AXI, SPMI, I2C, SPI
• Experience in low power design methodology and clock domain crossing designs
• Experience in Spyglass Lint/CDC checks and waiver creation
• Experience in formal verification with Cadence LEC
• Understanding of full RTL to GDS flow to interact with DFT and PD teams
• Expertise in Perl, TCL language
• Expertise in post-Si debug is a plus

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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.