Physical Design Engineer - Mixed Signal IP

Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

We are looking for a physical design engineer to join our design team in San Diego California. Successful candidate will be part of design group responsible to deliver IP implementation like high-speed DDR, USB, PCI, PLL and mixed Digital and Analog designs. This person should demonstrate extensive knowledge in physical design flow and methodologies to ensure high quality and timely release, successful silicon in nanometer technologies, understand key design challenges and solutions. 

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.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and direction to project execution.
• Manage project timelines, deliverables and track them to closure.
• Mentor, guide and help team members in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborate with design team and work with cross functional teams.
• Use good verbal and written communication skills to describe daily technical and non-technical issues
• Take responsibility for your own work and making decisions
• Exercise creativity to troubleshoot technical problems

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields.
• A minimum of 6 years’ experience in physical design engineering
  • Successful Tapeouts in Nanometer Technologies
  • Understanding of complex foundry design rules and requirements
• In-depth knowledge of design flow RTL to GDS process
  • Floor-planning
    • Automatic and custom placement
    • Multi-voltage power domains
    • Pre-placement and pre-routing
  • Power Design Networks PDN-planning
  • Place & Route
  • Clock Tree Synthesis and customization
  • Static Timing Analysis
    • Understand Timing constraints
    • Fixing timing violations
  • Physical Verification
    • DRC, LVS, ERC, DFM
    • Virtuoso is a plus
• Experience with industry leading tools
  • Cadence
  • Synopsys
  • Mentor
  • Ansys
• Working knowledge of programming languages, HDL, OS
  • Python, C++, TCL, Perl, Awk
  • Verilog/VHDL,Unix/Linux
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Automation with Perl, Python and tcl is plus

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :

$164,000.00 - $246,000.00

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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