WRD(RTL ) Design - Staff/Manager Bangalore, India Hardware Engineering Posted 14 hours ago

Qualcomm; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited’s WRD (Wi‑Fi) team seeks a digital design engineer to help develop Wi‑Fi IPs, focusing on RTL coding and signal‑processing blocks.

You will collaborate with the IP lead and WiFi systems team across spec, micro‑architecture, RTL QA and releases, applying RTL/Verilog/SystemVerilog and HLS knowledge.

The role requires a strong hardware design background, debugging, and collaboration, with a path to contribute to next‑generation Wi‑Fi standards (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax).

Qualifications

• 8–15 years in design, micro-architecture and RTL coding.
• HLS experience is a plus.
• Proficiency in Verilog and SystemVerilog.
• Experience with RTL QA flows PLDRC, CDC, CLP.
• Experience with implementation or STA flows is beneficial.
• Knowledge of signal processing concepts and Wi‑Fi standards (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax).
• Experience with Perl/Tcl scripting.
• Strong debugging and problem‑solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, micro-architecture design, RTL coding and development and its validation for linting, CDC rules.
• Work with project lead in coming up with the IP micro architecture.
• Work with functional verification team on test‑plan development and debug.
• Develop timing constraints, if required, to synthesize the RTL.

Skills

Verilog

SystemVerilog

RTL coding

HLS

Signal processing

WiFi standards

Perl/Tcl scripting

Debugging skills

Education

MTech in ECE

BTech in ECE/EE

PhD in Engineering

Tools

PLDRC

CDC

CLP

HLS tooling

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary:

BDC WRD (Wi-Fi) is responsible for developing Qualcomm’s Wi-Fi chips. We are looking for a digital design engineer, with some signal processing background.

As a design engineer, you will be working with the lead on designing one of the IPs of the WiFi PHY for the upcoming WiFi standard and in the process contribute to the entire life cycle of a design from understanding spec, micro-architecture, RTL coding, RTL QA and making the releases. You will be participating along with the lead in discussions with the WiFi PHY systems team during the requirements phase. It is expected you to have the background and inclination to implement Signal processing module of WiFi in RTL and/or HLS.

Skills & Experience

• MTech/BTech in Electronics & Communication Engineering with 8-15 years in design, micro-architecture & RTL coding.
• Experience with HLS will be a plus.
• Proficient in Verilog, System-Verilog programming languages
• Solid experience with RTL QA flows like PLDRC, CDC, CLP (optional)
• Good to have the working experience either of Implementation or STA flows.
• Knowledge of signal processing concepts/algorithms and Wi-Fi standards (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax) is good to have.
• Good experience in any scripting languages (Perl, Tcl, etc..)
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

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.

OR

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

OR

PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, Micro-architecture design, RTL coding and development and its validation for linting, CDC rules.
• Work with project lead in coming up with the IP micro architecture.
• Work with functional verification team on test-plan development and debug.
• Develop timing constraints, if required, to synthesize the RTL.

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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