CPU Physical Design Timing Engineer (Austin, TX)

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

General Summary:

NUVIA is now part of Qualcomm. Our mission is to reimagine silicon and create computing platforms that will transform the industry. 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.

About The Role:

In this role you will have the opportunity to define, develop and drive CPU timing closure for Oryon CPU Cores. As a CPU Physical Design Timing Engineer, you will work with microarchitecture and RTL design team to develop timing constraints, drive implementation of the designs to meet aggressive power, area and performance goals using industry standard tools/flows. One of your primary responsibilities will be coding scripts used with STA native tools and useful in enabling CPU timing infrastructure and methodology impacting multiple CPU projects in Qualcomm. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with Qualcomm central timing technology & methodology team and interact with CPU implementation team to drive PPA goals of CPU. You will have the opportunity to carve out a strong professional growth path working on industry leading technology nodes N2/N3.

Mandatory Skill Set Required for this position:

• Excellent automation skills using TCL/Perl/Python

• Be able to develop/work on automation scripts with the given spec to develop CPU STA signoff flow /methodology

• History of any framework /tool /utility development is preferred

Responsibilities:

• STA setup, convergence, reviews and signoff for multi-mode, multi-voltage domain designs of Oryon CPU Cores.

• Timing analysis, validation and debug across multiple PVT conditions using PT/Tempus.

• Run Primetime and/or Tempus for STA flow optimization and Spice to STA correlation.

• Find out the root cause of timing miscorrelation at different design levels in functional and test mode, propose solutions.

• Evaluate multiple timing methodologies/tools on different designs and technology nodes.

• Good Technical writing and Communication skills and should be willing to work in cross-collaborative environment.

• Familiar with digital flow design implementation RTL to GDS : ICC, Innovus , PT/Tempus

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ 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 1+ year 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.

Preferred Qualification/Skills

• Strong expertise in STA timing analysis basics, AOCV/POCV concepts, CTS, defining and managing timing constraints, Latch transparency handling, 0-cycle, multi-cycle path handling

• Hands-on experience with STA tools - Prime-time, Tempus

• Have experience in driving timing convergence at Chip-level and Hard-Macro level

• In-depth knowledge crosstalk noise, Signal Integrity, Layout Parasitic Extraction, feed through handling,

• Knowledge of ASIC back-end design flows and methods and tools (ICC2, Innovus)

• Basic knowledge of device physics

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$129,500.00 - $194,300.00

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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