CPU Microarchitect/RTL design Engineer, Senior/Staff - Cork, Ireland

Qualcomm; Cork; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary, stock and performance-related bonus

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Employee stock purchase scheme

Matching pension scheme

Education assistance

Relocation and immigration support

Life, medical, income and travel insurance

Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being

Bicycle purchase scheme

Employee run clubs

Job summary

Qualcomm in Cork is looking for an experienced Qualcomm Engineer to lead the definition and optimization of IP development for high-performance, low-power products. The role demands collaboration with various teams to ensure a smart, connected future.

Ideal candidates possess thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture and design tools, along with a track record in ASIC design and verification. Enjoy benefits like a performance-related bonus and employee stock purchase schemes.

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including instruction fetch and decode.
• Experience with Verilog and/or VHDL, and debugging tools.
• Logic design principles with awareness of timing and power implications.
• Understanding techniques for low-power microarchitecture.
• Expertise in CPU microarchitecture high-performance techniques.
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Perl or Python.

Responsibilities

• Explore high performance strategies with CPU modeling team.
• Develop microarchitecture from high-level exploration to specification.
• Refine RTL design to meet power, performance, area and timing goals.
• Support functional verification strategy.
• Ensure RTL meets performance goals.
• Collaborate with engineering team for physical design validation.

Skills

Microprocessor architecture knowledge

Knowledge of Verilog or VHDL

Logic design principles

Low-power microarchitecture understanding

High-performance techniques

Scripting in Perl or Python

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

Job description

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 Engineer, you will define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify and validate IP (block/SoC) development for high‑performance, low‑power products. You will collaborate with cross‑functional groups to determine product execution paths.

Key Responsibilities

• Performance exploration: explore high performance strategies with the CPU modeling team.
• Microarchitecture development & specification: from high‑level exploration to detailed specification.
• RTL ownership: develop, assess, and refine RTL design to achieve power, performance, area and timing goals.
• Functional verification support: assist the verification team with functional verification strategy.
• Performance verification support: ensure RTL meets performance goals.
• Design delivery: work with the multi‑functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design for timing, area, reliability, testability and power.

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture, including instruction fetch, decode, branch prediction, scheduling, register renaming, out‑of‑order execution, integer/floating‑point execution, load/store, prefetching, cache and memory subsystems.
• Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL, simulators and waveform debugging tools.
• Logic design principles, timing and power implications.
• Understanding of low‑power microarchitecture techniques.
• High‑performance techniques and trade‑offs in a CPU microarchitecture.
• Experience with scripting language such as Perl or Python.

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.

Equal Opportunity

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.

Benefits

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance‑related bonus.
• Maternity/Paternity Leave.
• Employee stock purchase scheme.
• Matching pension scheme.
• Education assistance.
• Relocation and immigration support.
• 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, and many more.