Senior Microcontroller Sub-System Architect

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Cork; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary, stock and performance related

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Employee stock purchase scheme

Matching pension scheme

Education Assistance

Relocation and immigration support

Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insur

Subsidised memberships for physical &;

Bicycle purchase scheme

Employee run clubs

Job summary

Qualcomm in Cork, Ireland is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to provide deep technical leadership across the Microcontroller Sub-System IP team. You will drive architecture and design excellence, influence subsystem direction, and mentor engineers while collaborating with DFT, Implementation, Verification, Emulation, and Firmware teams.

The role involves micro-architecture for complex digital blocks, RTL development, debugging, and post-silicon bring-up to ensure high performance, low power, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• Master’s degree in Science, Engineering or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• PhD in Science, Engineering — This … 듀?

Responsibilities

• Micro-Architecture and Technical Leadership: Driving micro-architecture for both simple and highly complex digital blocks, making key design trade-offs, and providing technical leadership across the subsystem.
• RTL Development and Design Quality: Leading RTL (Register Transfer Level) development using industry best practices. This includes handling multi-clock designs, high-frequency requirements, low power, and low latency considerations while ensuring high performance, scalability, and design robustness.
• Debugging and Post-Silicon Bring-Up: Leading root-cause analysis and resolution of complex design issues during development and supporting post-silicon bring-up activities across cross-functional teams.
• Documentation and Reviews: Creating comprehensive design documentation, driving high-quality design and architecture reviews, and ensuring clarity, maintainability, and reuse across projects.
• Design Optimization: Driving optimization for key metrics such as area, power, and performance while balancing product requirements, implementation constraints, and long‑term architectural goals.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration and Mentorship: Partnering closely with DFT (Design for Testability), Implementation, Verification, Emulation, and Firmware teams, while mentoring junior engineers and influencing technical direction across the wider organization.

Skills

Micro-architecture

RTL development

Debugging

Documentation

Design optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Scripting/Python or Perl

Technical leadership

Digital logic design

ARM THUMB / RISC-V ISA

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering or related field

Master’s degree in Science, Engineering or related field

PhD in Science, Engineering

Job description

Qualcomm in Cork, Ireland is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to provide deep technical leadership across the Microcontroller Sub-System IP team. You will drive architecture and design excellence, influence subsystem direction, and mentor engineers while collaborating with DFT, Implementation, Verification, Emulation, and Firmware teams.

The role involves micro-architecture for complex digital blocks, RTL development, debugging, and post-silicon bring-up to ensure high performance, low power, and