Senior CPU Microarchitecture & RTL Design Engineer

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 217,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is hiring a CPU Micro-architect/RTL Designer in Austin, TX. You will collaborate with chip architects to define microarchitecture and contribute to product life-cycle decisions early in development.

You will own RTL development, work with verification teams, and help optimize timing, power and area while delivering robust designs for high-performance, low-power devices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 8+ years of hardware/software work experience; or Master's with 7+ years; or PhD with 6+ years.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

CPU architecture

RTL design

Verilog/VHDL

High-level modeling

Scripting (Perl/Python)

Power & performance

Timing analysis

Debugging tools

Education

Bachelor's degree + 8+ years

Master's +7 years

PhD +6 years

Tools

Verilog

VHDL

CPU simulators

Waveform debugging

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is hiring a CPU Micro-architect/RTL Designer in Austin, TX. You will collaborate with chip architects to define microarchitecture and contribute to product life-cycle decisions early in development.

You will own RTL development, work with verification teams, and help optimize timing, power and area while delivering robust designs for high-performance, low-power devices.