RTL Design (DDR) - Sr Lead Engineer

Qualcomm; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced Hardware Engineer to lead micro-architecture and RTL development for advanced SoCs. You will validate designs for linting, clock-domain crossing, and DFT rules while collaborating with global teams.

The role requires hands-on experience with DDR interfaces, multi-clock designs, low-power techniques, UPF, and timing closure. You will work with verification, sub-system, and chip-level teams and contribute to silicon bring-up.

Qualifications

• Bachelors/Masters/PhD in CS/EE with hardware emphasis and design experience.
• Experience in micro-architecture development, RTL, and front-end flows (Lint, CDC, low-power checks).
• Hands-on experience with multi-clock designs and low-power SoC design is required.

Responsibilities

• Develop micro-architecture and RTL for ASICs and validate linting/CDC/DFT rules.
• Collaborate with verification to develop test plans and debug waveforms at core/sub-system/SoC levels.
• Contribute to constraint development and timing closure; write UPF and low-power checks.

Skills

ASIC design

RTL design

Clock-domain crossing

Low-power design

Multi Clock designs

Debug & bring-up

Education

Bachelors in EE/CS/related

Masters in EE/CS/related

PhD in related field

Tools

Schematic capture

Circuit simulation

Oscilloscopes & RF tools

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary:

Job Description

Skills & Experience

• MTech/BTech in EE/CS with 5 to 12 years of ASIC design experience.
• Experience in micro-architecture development, RTL design, front-end flows (Lint, CDC, low-power checks, etc.), synthesis/DFT/FV/STA
• Good understanding of DDR families (LP/PC) and generations (DDR2/3/4/5/6) is added advantage.
• Understanding of protocols like AHB/AXI/ACE/CHI is desirable.
• Experience with post-silicon bring-up and debug is a plus.
• Able to work with teams across the globe and possess good communication skills.
• Hands on experience in Multi Clock designs, Asynchronous interface is a must.
• Hands on experience in Low power SoC design is required.

Responsibilities

• Mirco architecture & RTL development and its validation for linting, clock-domain crossing and DFT rules.
• Work with functional verification team on test-plan development and waveform debugs at core, sub-system, SoCs levels.
• Hands on experience in constraint development and timing closure.
• UPF writing, power aware equivalence checks and low power checks.
• Support performance debugs and address performance bottle necks.
• Provide support to sub-system, SoC integration and chip level debug.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of experience with circuit design (e.g., digital, analog, RF).
• 2+ years of experience utilizing schematic capture and circuit simulation software.
• 2+ years of experience with hardware design and measurement instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF tools, etc.
• 1+ year in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leverages advanced Hardware knowledge and experience to plan, optimize, verify, and test critical electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems.
• Integrates complex features and functionality into hardware designs in line with proposals or roadmaps for complex products.
• Conducts complex simulations and analyses of designs as well as implements designs with the best power, performance, and area.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams (e.g., design, verification, validation, software and systems engineering, architecture development teams, etc.) to implement new requirements and incorporate the latest test solutions in the production program to improve the yield, test time, and quality.
• Evaluates, characterizes, and develops the novel manufacturing of solutions for leading edge products in the most advanced processes and bring-up product to meet customer expectations and schedules.
• Evaluates reliability of critical materials, properties, and techniques and brings innovation, automation, and optimization to maximize productivity.
• Evaluates complex design features to identify potential flaws, compatibility issues, and/or compliance issues.
• Writes detailed technical documentation for complex Hardware projects.

Level of Responsibility:

• Works independently with minimal supervision.
• Provides supervision/guidance to other team members.
• Decision-making is significant in nature and affects work beyond immediate work group.
• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey complex information. May require negotiation, influence, tact, etc.
• Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions.

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