CPU SRAM Design Engineer

Qualcomm; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 179,000 - 269,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Memory Designer in their high-performance CPU team. This role offers the chance to work alongside passionate engineers, designing cutting-edge SRAM circuits that enhance performance and energy efficiency. With a focus on innovation, you'll have full ownership of custom designs, from schematic capture to analysis. The collaborative environment fosters creativity, allowing you to contribute to impactful projects that aim to revolutionize the CPU market. If you're eager to make a difference in technology, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Competitive annual discretionary bonus

Annual RSU grants

Comprehensive benefits package

Flexible work environment

Qualifications

• 12+ years experience in SRAM circuit design and custom design tools.
• Strong knowledge of semiconductor device fundamentals and layout designs.

Responsibilities

• Develop custom digital circuits for SRAM designs.
• Conduct schematic capture and functional verification.
• Perform timing characterization and margin verification.

Skills

SRAM circuit design

Circuit simulation

Static timing analysis

Monte Carlo analysis

High-performance design techniques

Low-power design techniques

Education

BA/BS in Electrical Engineering

MS in Electrical Engineering

PhD in Electrical Engineering

Tools

NanoTime

Ansys EMIR

ESP-CV

Liberate power analysis

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm is a company of inventors seeking to revolutionize the CPU market in an age of new possibilities. Are you interested in joining Qualcomm’s high performance CPU team as a Memory Designer? You will have the opportunity to work with some of the most talented and passionate engineers in the world to create designs that push the envelope on performance, energy efficiency and scalability. We offer a fun, creative and flexible work environment, with a shared vision to build products to change the world.

As a CPU SRAM Design Engineer, you will design, improve, and analyze digital circuits for memories. The role involves full ownership of custom SRAM and RF designs from schematic capture to analysis and model generation.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Electrical Engineering with 12+ years of practical experience
• Experience with designing SRAM circuits
• Experience in industry standard custom design tools and flows
• Experience with circuit simulation and monte carlo analysis.
• Experience with static timing analysis.

Preferred qualifications

• MS degree in Electrical Engineering; 10+ years of practical experience
• Strong knowledge of SRAM and Register File techniques with advanced custom circuit implementations
• Strong knowledge of high-performance and low-power design features and techniques
• Strong knowledge of semiconductor device fundamentals
• Familiar with variation-aware simulation in FinFet and Nanosheet technology nodes
• Experience with custom memory layout designs
• Experience with all memory analysis steps including design entry, functional verification, layout guidance, simulation, timing, power and electrical characterization.
• Good understanding of physical implementation impact on circuit performance
• Proficiency with the following tools: NanoTime, Ansys EMIR analysis, ESP-CV, Liberate power analysis
• Experience with memory logical models (Verilog) and functional verification.

• Experience with BIST and other DFT features.
• Experience with memory analysis flow development and planning.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop custom digital circuits for high-speed and low-power SRAM designs
• Schematic capture
• Layout planning and supervision
• Functional verification
• Simulation and margin verification
• Timing characterization
• Performing analysis steps necessary to generate all deliverable collateral models
• Interacting with CAD team to ensure proper and efficient model generation
• Interacting with Physical Design team resolve memory PPA challenges
• Depending on skill set, aid the team with contributions to modeling, DFT and/or analysis flow development.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$179,000.00 - $268,400.00

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 thislink.

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