RISC V CPU Design -Staff Engineer

Qualcomm; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited in Bengaluru is seeking a skilled Hardware Engineer to plan, design, verify, and test electronic systems, with focus on CPU RTL development using the RISC-V architecture.

You will collaborate with chip architects and cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance, low-power devices, contributing to micro-architecture specifications and RTL ownership. Candidates should have 6+ years of hardware engineering experience, and a on-site role in Bengaluru.

Qualifications

• Bachelor, Master, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics or related field.
• Experience in hardware engineering and CPU design for high-performance devices.
• Strong knowledge of microprocessor architecture and RTL verification.

Responsibilities

• Performance exploration with CPU modeling teams.
• Microarchitecture development and detailed specifications.
• RTL ownership for power, performance, area and timing goals.
• Functional verification support for RTL design.
• Design delivery with cross-functional teams on timing and reliability.

Skills

CPU architecture

Verilog/VHDL

Logic design

Low power design

High-performance CPU

Perl/Python scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Master's degree in CS/EE

PhD in CS/EE

Tools

Verilog simulators

Waveform debugging tools

RTL design tools

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

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 using the RISC-V Architecture. 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.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

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 and testability.

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.

Applicants and Equal Opportunity:

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