CPU Micro-architect/RTL Designer (Multiple Locations), Italy

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Roma; On-site; EUR 54,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Europe, Inc. Italy Branch Office is seeking an engineer in CPU engineering to drive performance exploration, microarchitecture development, RTL ownership, and verification across a full design cycle.

The role involves collaborating with the CPU modeling and verification teams to meet power, timing, and area targets, while delivering robust design implementations and detailed specifications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• Master's degree with 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Performance exploration with CPU modeling team.
• Microarchitecture development and specification from high-level exploration to detailed specs.
• RTL ownership: development, assessment and refinement to meet power, performance, area and timing goals.
• Functional verification support for the design verification team.
• Performance verification support to ensure RTL meets goals.
• Design delivery with multi-functional teams addressing timing, area, reliability, and testability.

Skills

Microprocessor architecture

Verilog

VHDL

Waveform debugging tools

Logic design principles

Low power microarchitecture

High-performance CPU techniques

Python/Perl scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Verilog

VHDL

Job description

Company: Qualcomm Europe, Inc. Italy Branch Office

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

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.

Minimum 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, or related field.

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

References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits

€54,000.00 - €80,400.00 annual (Gross)

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