Signoff Static Timing Analysis and Spice CAD Engineer

California Jobs; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 98,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented engineer to join their innovative Global CAD team. This role focuses on enhancing Signoff solutions for cutting-edge Snapdragon chips, which power billions of mobile devices worldwide. The ideal candidate will possess strong skills in Signoff Timing and spice simulation, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to develop methodologies that ensure accuracy and efficiency. If you have a passion for technology and want to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Annual discretionary bonus

RSU grants

Comprehensive benefits package

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• 2-6 years of experience in Signoff Timing of SoCs.
• Deep knowledge of STA features and Timing concepts.

Responsibilities

• Improve Timing and Cell Characterization methodology for Snapdragon chips.
• Collaborate with AI team for compute and turn-around time reduction.

Skills

Signoff Timing

Spice Simulation

Python

TCL

STA Features

Cell Characterization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

PhD in related field

Tools

EDA Tools

Regression 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 Signoff solutions for the Snapdragon chips powering billions of mobile devices. The position requires Signoff Timing and spice simulation experience, with CAD development skills to define and develop tools and methodologies for accuracy, compute, in close collaboration with Snapdragon Physical Design and Timing teams. Qualcomm is using leading edge internal and EDA technologies in the Signoff domain, including pioneering in genAI/ML, and developing good-by-construction hierarchical solution, as well as enabling the latest STA features to reduce conservatism in Signoff.

This role's responsibilities will include:

• Improving the Timing and Cell Characterization methodology for diverse Mobile, Compute, AI, IoT Snapdragon chips.

• Participate in the enablement and validation of new cell characterization methodologies and features, through careful spice correlation and CAD development. Collaborate with AI team on ground-breaking initiatives for compute and turn-around time reduction.

• Correlation of STA tools with spice, version-to-version validation.

• Provide solutions to the Snapdragon design teams, analyze their requests, and address their requests through ticket queues.

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

• Setting up, augmenting, and maintaining a regression of complex STA designs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, Masters degree or PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field. Maths minor is a plus.

• Deep knowledge of STA features and Timing concepts.

• 2-6 years of experience in Signoff Timing of SoCs at either top-level or block-level.

• 2-6 years of experience with scripting tools and programming languages: Python and TCL preferred.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Participate to the STA and Cell Characterization flows and features enablement for foundry advanced process nodes, at block, subsystem, and top level.

• Participate to the enablement of new methodologies and features for turn-around time reduction on various subsystems such as Modem, GPU, CPU, DDR, Camera, Video, NSP.

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

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

• Deep dive on STA or/and spice issues and establish as a go-to domain expert.

• Participate along with Qualcomm talented AI team to R&D initiatives driving differentiation in terms of compute and turn-around time.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :

$98,500.00 - $147,700.00

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