Staff CPU/NPU Architecture RTL Design Engineer Markham, Ontario, Canada ASICS Engineering Posted a day ago

Qualcomm; Markham; Hybrid; CAD 124,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

RSU grants

Benefits package

Job summary

Qualcomm Canada ULC in Markham, Ontario, is hiring for the Hexagon NPU team to develop high-performance CPU/AI processors. This replacement position targets professionals with strong RTL/ASIC expertise and micro-architecture skills to advance power-efficient solutions.

Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor’s with 4+ years, or a Master’s with 3+ years, or a PhD with 2+ years in ASIC design, verification, or related work. We offer a competitive pay range and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

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

Skills

RTL design

ASIC design

Micro-architecture

Power management

Debug architecture

CPU/AI processor

Memory subsystems

RISC-V

Education

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

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

RISC-V

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Join us to build IP blocks that power Snapdragon processors and AI inference engines.

Qualcomm's Hexagon NPU Team is hiring for the various positions in Markham, Canada for the development of high-performance, energy-efficient CPU and AI processors.

Hexagon NPU is an in-house built Qualcomm proprietary processor which is the center of Qualcomm's hybrid AI computing capability targeted for a broad spectrum of AI use cases across market segments.

Replacement Position

• ideally 2+ years of experience
• strong knowledge in CPU/AI processor micro-architecture, architecture
• RTL design
• debug architecture
• power-management and circuit design

Other areas of expertise should span:

• RTL Design of high-performance CPU/AI processors
• RTL coding, micro-architecture and architecture
• Computer Arithmetic
• Instruction fetch, scheduling and register renaming
• Fixed-Point, Floating-Point design
• Matrix Multiply engines
• Vector Extensions
• Memory sub-systems, Load/store, caches, atomics, coherence and consistency
• Branch prediction, out-of-order, dispatch, schedulers
• Multi-processor and multi-threaded systems
• RISC-V
• Power, performance and Area (PPA) optimizations
• CPU sub-system Logic Design

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$124,200.00 - $174,200.00

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.