SOC Power Architect

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks an experienced ASIC Engineer to define, model, and implement power and limits IP across high-performance devices. You will verify and document implementations, collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet thermal and power goals.

The role emphasizes deep knowledge of power delivery, DCVS, and system interactions to sustain CPU/GPU performance while managing temperature and power constraints.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: with Bachelor's: 6+ years ASIC design/verification; with Master's: 5+ years; with PhD: 4+ years.
• Candidate will develop power and limits system to maximize performance within thermal/power envelopes.
• Strong experience with UPF, power domains, and cross-domain interactions.

Responsibilities

• Define, model, design, verify and document IP/SoC power and limits architectures.
• Work across system, software, and product teams to optimize power delivery and performance.

Skills

Power and limits system

UPF

Low power design

Clock domain crossing

Perl

Python scripting

Post-Si debug

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science/Engineering

Master's degree in Science/Engineering

PhD in Science/Engineering

Tools

Perl

Python

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm ASIC Engineer, you will define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for a variety of high performance, high quality, low power world class products. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional groups to determine product execution path.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Candidate will be responsible for developing next generation power and limits system. With HPC, AI, and automotive system become so compute intense, the thermal and electrical constrained performance is becoming the bottleneck. A new system needs to be defined to have maximum performance while meet the thermal and power envelop. A fast DCVS system is also needed to make the transient response of the power delivery system to be able to support high frequency CPU, GPU, and NSP. The candidate will be defining the power and limit system to have optimal system performance while enforce the thermal and electrical limits with minimum SW intervention. This role will require the candidate to understand and work on all aspects of power control and limits architecture, micro architecture and interactions with system, SW and product team.

Skills/Experience

• 10+ years of strong experience in power and limits system
• Familiar with UPF and power domain crossing
• Experience in low power design methodology and clock domain crossing designs
• Proficient in Perl, Python scripting
• Expertise in post-Si debug is a plus

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may email [e-mail] or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities.

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.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$174,400.00 - $261,600.00

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.