CPU Verification Engineer, Director

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm CPU Engineer, you will lead innovative Central Processing Unit (CPU) design efforts that have a critical impact on industries across the world. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, verify, and implement multi-core CPU operations for all Qualcomm Business Units.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ 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 7+ years 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 and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

•    Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

•    16+ years of work experience with high-performance microprocessor design.
•    16+ years of work experience with high level programming (e.g., C, C++), scripting language programming (e.g., Perl, Python, etc.).
•    16+ years of work experience with simulators and/or waveform debugging tools (e.g., Verilog, VHDL, etc.).

•    16+ years of work experience with industry standard tools for synthesis place and/or route and design verification.

•    16+ years of work experience with simulation, emulation, formal verification, or silicon validation.

•    16+ years of experience in creating functional models, checkers, test plans, and/or test generation.

•    4+ years in a technical leadership role.

•    3+ years experience working in a large matrixed organization.

•    2+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Sr. Director level and above).

•    2+ years working with operating budgets and/or project financials.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

•    Leverages expert knowledge of computer architecture, micro-architecture, logic design, circuits, and/or physical design to direct and drive the development and verification of high performance and low power CPU designs.

•    Directs and oversees the identification and solutions of highly complex problems to ensure design completeness, functionality, power, and performance.

•    Collaborates with critical stakeholders to define requirements, specifications, and trade-offs (e.g., performance, power, cost, functionalities, etc.) in order to accomplish product goals.

•    Directs and communicates guidelines and expectations for the evaluation if the design process from conceptualization to productization (i.e., architecture definition, feasibility, pre-silicon design and verification, and post-silicon validation) that meet customer and industry standards.

•    Communicates guidelines across teams for writing detailed technical documentation (e.g., feature descriptions, architectural descriptions, verification test plans, and implementation details, etc.) for CPU designs.

Level of Responsibility:
•    Provides supervision to other supervisors/managers who are direct reports.
•    Decision-making is critical in nature and highly impacts program, product, or project success.
•    Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey highly complex and/or detailed information. May require strong negotiation and influence with large groups or high-level constituents.
•    Works within the prescribed budgetary objectives of the department.

•    Has a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions.

•    Tasks often require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; extensive planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$252,800.00 - $379,200.00

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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