Staff CAD Engineer (Silicon) - Cork, Ireland

Company:

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

As a member of the Graphics team, the successful applicant will help develop new flows/methodologies and algorithms to improve power, performance and area (PPA) on state-of-the-art GPU cores while working closely with the graphics microarchitecture design and implementation teams. The successful candidate will possess basic understanding of RTL design and ASIC design flow from RTL to GDS such as synthesis, static timing analysis, formal verification, physical design, ECO generation and verification. They will collaborate with multiple functional teams including design, technology, power, implementation, sign-off and post-silicon to drive PPA improvements into GPU cores.

Knowledge and experience in the following is a definite advantage:

• Implementation and delivery of GPU cores from RTL to GDSII

• Semi-custom design flow and methodology development

• Identifying areas for flow and process improvements

• Verilog and System-Verilog languages

• RTL synthesis using physically aware tools

• Design constraint management for power, timing, clocking, interfaces

• Formal Verification for RTL-netlist and netlist-netlist checks

• Clock Tree Analysis and Optimization

• ECO methods for functional and timing fixes

• Managing design goals and tradeoffs in power, performance, and area

All Qualcomm employees are expected to actively support diversity on their teams, and in the Company.

Preferred Qualifications

At-least 5-7 years of experience developing methodologies for PPA improvement

Basic understanding of digital design and RTL development

Hands on experience with EDA tools such as Synopsys Fusion Compiler, Synopsys RTL-Architect, PrimePower,PrimeTime and Prime Closure

Script writing experience in UNIX shell, Python, Perl and/or TCL

Excellent interpersonal and analytical skills as well as ability to work independently

Highly motivated, excellent team spirit, obsession with deliverable quality and customer oriented

Education Requirements Preferred: Master's, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering
Required: Bachelor's, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering 

Where you will be working

Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.
There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.
A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

Equal Opportunities
We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.

What's on Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus

• Maternity/Paternity Leave

• Employee stock purchase scheme

• Matching pension scheme

• Education Assistance

• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)

• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance

• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being

• Bicycle purchase scheme

• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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