CPU RTL Design - Sr Eng/Lead/Staff/Sr Staff

Qualcomm; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited is seeking a CPU Micro-architecture and RTL Design Engineer in Bengaluru. This role involves working with chip architects on high-performance, low-power device design, focusing on microarchitecture and RTL development.

Applicants should have a degree in Computer Science or related field and experience in Hardware Engineering. The ideal candidate has thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture and expertise in Verilog or VHDL.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• 3+ years in Hardware Engineering with Master's degree.
• 2+ years in Hardware Engineering with PhD.

Responsibilities

• Explore high performance strategies with CPU modeling team.
• Develop microarchitecture from exploration to specification.
• Refine RTL design to meet power, performance, area, and timing.
• Support functional and performance verification.
• Collaborate to implement design and validate physical aspects.

Skills

Microprocessor architecture knowledge

Verilog/VHDL knowledge

Logic design principles

Low power microarchitecture techniques

Scripting languages (Perl/Python)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Company: Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary: Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age - and this is where you come in. We are hiring talented engineers for CPU RTL development targeted for high performance, low power devices. As a CPU Micro-architecture and RTL Design Engineer, you will work with chip architects to conceive of the micro-architecture, and also help with architecture/product definition through early involvement in the product life-cycle.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Performance exploration. Explore high performance strategies working with the CPU modeling team.
• Microarchitecture development and specification. From early high-level architectural exploration, through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification.
• RTL ownership. Development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals.
• Functional verification support. Help the design verification team execute on the functional verification strategy.
• Performance verification support. Help verify that the RTL design meets the performance goals.
• Design delivery. Work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and po.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Applicants: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.