AI Engineering & Methodology Architect - Cork, Ireland

Qualcomm; Ireland; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary + bonus

Relocation assistance

Life and medical insurance

Employee stock purchase

Pension matching

Job summary

QT Technologies Ireland Limited in Cork is seeking a senior engineer to advance ASIC design, RTL development, and verification through AI-powered workflows. You will build scalable tools and automation to accelerate design reviews, reduce debugging time, and surface actionable insights from large engineering datasets.

The role emphasizes enabling hundreds of engineers with robust workflows and a focus on engineering excellence. Equal opportunity employer with relocation support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field; 4+ years in ASIC design/verification
• Masters or PhD with related experience also considered
• Equivalent experience considered if the candidate can demonstrate required competencies

Responsibilities

• Develop RTL and verification workflows to accelerate design iterations
• Reduce debug turnaround time through automation and tooling
• Surface insights from large engineering datasets to guide decisions
• Improve methodology adoption and consistency across teams
• Increase engineering productivity at scale across the org

Skills

ASIC design

ASIC verification

Integration

Optimization

Education

Bachelor's or higher in Science/Engineering

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Tools

EDA tools

Job description

Company

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary

Job Description

Accelerating the Future of CPU Design

Why This Role Exists

The complexity of modern CPU development is growing faster than engineering teams can scale. More RTL, more verification, more data, more tools, more design iterations—and increasingly, more opportunities for AI to fundamentally change how engineering is done.

Our success will not be determined solely by how many engineers we hire. It will be determined by how effectively every engineer can create, analyze, verify, debug, and innovate.

This role exists to remove the friction that slows world-class engineers down.

We believe that the next decade of engineering productivity will come from the combination of deep technical expertise and intelligent automation. AI is not replacing engineering judgment—it is amplifying it. The engineers in this role will help define how that amplification happens.

You will build the tools, workflows, infrastructure, and methodology that allow entire design and verification organizations to move faster, make better decisions, and spend more time solving meaningful technical problems instead of fighting inefficiencies.

The impact of your work won't be measured by a single block or feature. It will be measured by hundreds of engineers moving faster because of what you built.

What You’ll Do

You will operate at the intersection of:

• Artificial Intelligence
• RTL Design
• Design Verification
• Engineering Methodology
• Infrastructure and Automation

You’ll identify inefficiencies that consume engineering time and eliminate them through innovation, automation, and AI-enabled workflows.

You'll Develop Solutions That

• Accelerate RTL development and review
• Simplify verification environment creation
• Reduce debug turnaround time
• Surface actionable insights from massive engineering datasets
• Improve methodology adoption and consistency
• Increase engineering productivity at organizational scale

You will evaluate emerging technologies, experiment with bleeding-edge AI capabilities, and transform promising ideas into production-quality solutions used by teams across the company.

Who Thrives Here

The best candidates for this role are builders.

They see a manual process and immediately start imagining how to automate it.

They encounter an engineering bottleneck and can't stop thinking about how to eliminate it.

They are energized by creating tools that hundreds of engineers use every day.

They enjoy taking emerging technologies—especially AI—and figuring out how to apply them to real engineering challenges.

They care deeply about engineering excellence and become frustrated when talented engineers waste time on repetitive work, fractured workflows, unnecessary complexity, or poorly integrated tools.

They are naturally curious, continuously learning, and excited to explore ideas that have never been tried before.

Areas Of Impact

AI-Powered Engineering

Develop intelligent workflows that augment design and verification engineers throughout the development cycle.

Leverage agentic systems, large language models, and advanced analytics to improve engineering productivity, design quality, and decision-making.

Methodology Innovation

Define the next generation of RTL and verification methodologies by integrating AI directly into established engineering practices.

Transform how teams write code, review designs, analyze results, debug failures, and learn from data.

Infrastructure & Automation

Build scalable systems, services, and frameworks that enable engineers to focus on solving technical problems instead of managing process overhead.

Create durable platforms that become foundational to how engineering is performed.

Organizational Multiplication

Drive solutions that scale across teams, programs, and geographies.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish alone, but by how much more effective everyone becomes because of your contributions.

Where you will be working

Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.

There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.

A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

Equal Opportunities

We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.

What's On Offer

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Matching pension scheme
• Education Assistance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being
• Bicycle purchase scheme
• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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.

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