CAD Implementation Engineer

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented engineer to join their dynamic Global CAD team. This exciting role involves enhancing the SoC implementation methodology for cutting-edge Snapdragon chips, which power billions of devices worldwide. You'll collaborate closely with design teams to develop innovative CAD tools, optimize synthesis processes, and tackle complex challenges in physical design. If you're passionate about advancing technology and making a significant impact in the semiconductor industry, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Annual discretionary bonus

Competitive benefits package

Opportunity for RSU grants

Flexible work environment

Qualifications

• 2-5+ years of experience in Synthesis, Place and Route, or Floorplanning of SoCs.
• Experience in CAD solution development applied to Physical Design.

Responsibilities

• Improve SoC Implementation methodology for diverse Snapdragon chips.
• Develop CAD tools for optimization of Synthesis, Floorplan, Place and Route.

Skills

Synthesis

Place and Route

Floorplanning

Python

TCL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering

Master's degree in Science

PhD in Engineering

Tools

EDA Tools

Job description

**Company:**

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

**Job Area:**

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

**General Summary:**

Join QCOM Technologies Inc vibrant Global CAD team pushing the limits of RTL2GDS solutions for the Snapdragon chips powering billions of mobile devices. The position requires ASIC Physical Design or CAD development experience to define and develop implementation tools and methodologies for PPA, Quality and shortening design cycle time, in close collaboration with Synthesis and Physical design teams.

**This role’s responsibilities will include:**

+ Improve the SoC Implementation methodology for diverse Mobile, Compute, AI, IoT Snapdragon chips.

+ Develop CAD tools for optimization of Synthesis, Floorplan, Place and Route and Design closure.

+ Project Global CAD Implementation solutions to the Snapdragon design teams, analyze their requests and interface with Flow development team to implement new solutions and fixes.

+ Collaborate with core and SoC design team to develop solution for advanced multi-die implementation and advanced process nodes.

+ Collaboration with design teams

+ Interfacing with EDA vendors to enable production-ready tool sets that satisfy project’s requirement.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

• 2-5+ years of experience in Synthesis, Place and Route or/and Floorplanning of SoCs.

• 2-5+ years of experience of CAD solution development applied to Physical Design.

• 2-5+ years of experience with scripting tools and programming languages: Python and TCL preferred.

**Principal Duties and Responsibilities:**

• Product Engineer for the Synthesis and Place and Route Global CAD Solution using the state-of-the-art foundry tech nodes, including the task of facing design teams in solution-finding meetings, presenting new technologies and following up on problems and solutions.

• Participate to the development of the RT2GDS flow, including the tuning of design recipes to address specific Power-Performance-Area (PPA) objectives on various subsystems such as Modem, GPU, CPU, DDR, Camera, Video, NSP.

• Interface and drive EDA vendor Application Engineers on the resolution of Synthesis and Place and Route problems faced by the Snapdragon design teams.

• Participate to the specification of new CAD solutions addressing the PPA requirements of the design teams.

• Deep dive on implementation issues, such as congestion hot spots, pin access related design rules violations, suboptimal clock tree synthesis, high leakage or dynamic power dissipation, long cell legalization runtime.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

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**Pay range** **and Other Compensation & Benefits** **:**

$140,000.00 - $210,000.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link .

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EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification