SoC Power Design Engineer (Engineer - Staff Eng)

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

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks an ASIC Engineer focused on low-power design across SoC levels. You will work with frontend RTL, DFT, Synthesis, and Physical Design to implement and validate power intent (UPF) and related power models, contributing to power projections and clock/power analyses.

The role involves cross-functional collaboration with IP teams and CAD vendors to enhance power flows and ensure designs meet stringent low-power requirements across pre-silicon to post-silicon stages.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field with 4+ years in ASIC design/verification/validation.
• Master's or PhD degrees also considered with relevant ASIC experience.
• Experience with frontend RTL, DFT, synthesis, verification, and timing closure.
• Power-aware flow and low-power design using UPF/CPF; scripting in Perl/Tcl/Python.

Responsibilities

• Develop and validate low-power design intent at the SoC level.
• Collaborate with frontend RTL, DFT, Synthesis, and Physical Design teams.
• Review IP power features and ensure alignment with SoC budgets.
• Generate and validate UPF-based power intent designs for SoC.
• Engage with CAD/vendors to enhance power flows and tools.

Skills

ASIC frontend development

Logic design

RTL coding

Verification

Synthesis

Timing closure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

UPF/CPF/Conformal

Verilog/VHDL/SystemVerilog

Perl/Tcl/Python

Job description

Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS EngineeringGeneral 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.Qualcomm's Global SoC Power team is currently seeking candidate whose primary role is to implement and validate low power design intent requirements at the SoC-level. The candidate will work with frontend RTL, DFT, Synthesis, Design Verification and Physical Design teams during the SoC development. The role also expands to power analysis and projection of SoC Use Case power this may include creating power models and power dashboard for SoC level power targets. The candidate will have the opportunity to work with IP designers, power target (Chipset/SW) teams, and Post-Silicon test teams to jointly ensure power intent design requirements and power projections are fully validated from pre-silicon to silicon and post-silicon power optimization..Minimum Qualifications:• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.ORMaster's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.ORPhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.QUALIFICATIONS:Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering plus:ASIC frontend developmentLogic design, RTL coding, verification, synthesis, and timing closureHardware description languages (Verilog, VHDL, System Verilog)Power-aware implementation flow, including UPF/CPF/Conformal Low Power CheckScripting - Perl/Tcl/PythonPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:Master's degree in Electrical or Computer EngineeringExperience with/in:Familiarity of overall SoC Infrastructure – DDR, Busses, CPUs, I/Os and DFT ComponentsFamiliarity of power islands, power gating, power sequencing and multi-voltage domain designPower analysis familiarity in areas of clocktree, peak power, TDP, limits managementResponsibilities/Duties:Work with frontend RTL, DFT, Synthesis, and Physical design teams in the development of power intent design at SoC levelGenerate and validate power intent design (UPF) at SoC levelReview designs and guide IP designers' power intent design ensuring it meets SoC level low power implementation requirementsWork with design verification in validating low power design featurs at SoC and IP level.Collaborate with company CAD and vendor to enhance existing power flows and toolsImprove power design flows in areas of power modeling, clock power analysis, structural power validation, IP power intent QAExecute power-aware implementation flow, including UPF/CPF/Conformal Low Power CheckReview IP design's power features and power budgets/estimatesTrack IP power development through the design cycle ensuring it meets power budgets - leakage/dynamic at every milestonePerform power analysis/projection of SoC baseline power and deliver SoC power models to chipsetExecute power simulation/analysis - (PtPx/PowerArtist/Prime Power/PowerPro)Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. 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