Qualcomm · 19 hours ago
RTL-Synthesis CAD Engineer
San Diego, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$98K/yr - $148K/yr
1+ years expQualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a leader in mobile technology, and they are seeking an RTL-Synthesis CAD Engineer to join their Global CAD team. The role focuses on developing RTL and Synthesis solutions, collaborating closely with design teams to enhance methodologies and tools for Snapdragon chips.
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Responsibilities
Participating to the development of Qualcomm RTL Optimization engine and methods, leveraging both design analytics and GenAI techniques
Improving the SoC Synthesis and DFT Stitch methodologies for diverse Mobile, Compute, AI, IoT Snapdragon chips
Enabling new features from EDA tools or/and internal tools for RTL PPA, RTL Analysis, Synthesis and DFT Stitch
Support Snapdragon design teams on CAD solutions, analyze their requests, and address their requests through ticket queues
Interfacing with EDA vendors to enable production-ready tool sets that satisfy project’s requirement
Setting up, augmenting, and maintaining a regression of complex RTL Opt and Synthesis testcases
Innovating with design/tool/flow techniques for area reduction, dynamic power reduction and turn-around time, leading to participation to patents
Participate to Synthesis and DFT Stitch flows enablement for foundry advanced process nodes
Participate to the tuning of design recipes at RTL Opt and Synthesis levels to address specific objectives such as area, turn-around time on various subsystems such as Modem, GPU, CPU, DDR, Camera, Video, NSP
Participate along with Qualcomm talented AI team to R&D initiatives driving differentiation in terms of die area reduction, dynamic power, performance and turn-around time
Participate to the specification of new CAD solutions addressing the PPA requirements of the design teams, in the RTL Opt and Synthesis domains
Deep dive on Implementation issues, such as cell legalization issues, congestion hotspots, DFT stitch failures etc
Interface and drive EDA vendor Application Engineers on the resolution of block convergence problems faced by the Snapdragon design teams
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field
SystemVerilog knowledge
Synthesis or/and Place and Route exposure
CAD development skills to define and develop implementation tools and methodologies for PPA
Ability to shorten design cycle time
Experience in close collaboration with Snapdragon Design and Implementation teams
Participation in the development of Qualcomm RTL Optimization engine and methods
Improvement of SoC Synthesis and DFT Stitch methodologies for diverse Mobile, Compute, AI, IoT Snapdragon chips
Enabling new features from EDA tools or/and internal tools for RTL PPA, RTL Analysis, Synthesis and DFT Stitch
Support Snapdragon design teams on CAD solutions, analyze their requests, and address their requests through ticket queues
Interfacing with EDA vendors to enable production-ready tool sets that satisfy project's requirement
Setting up, augmenting, and maintaining a regression of complex RTL Opt and Synthesis testcases
Innovating with design/tool/flow techniques for area reduction, dynamic power reduction and turn-around time
Participation to patents
Participation to Synthesis and DFT Stitch flows enablement for foundry advanced process nodes
Participation to the tuning of design recipes at RTL Opt and Synthesis levels to address specific objectives such as area, turn-around time on various subsystems such as Modem, GPU, CPU, DDR, Camera, Video, NSP
Participation along with Qualcomm talented AI team to R&D initiatives driving differentiation in terms of die area reduction, dynamic power, performance and turn-around time
Participation to the specification of new CAD solutions addressing the PPA requirements of the design teams, in the RTL Opt and Synthesis domains
Deep dive on Implementation issues, such as cell legalization issues, congestion hotspots, DFT stitch failures etc
Interface and drive EDA vendor Application Engineers on the resolution of block convergence problems faced by the Snapdragon design teams
Preferred
Bachelor of Masters degree or PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
1-4 years of experience in VLSI CAD, preferably RTL analysis, Synthesis, DFT
1-4 years of experience with scripting tools and programming languages: Python and TCL preferred
Benefits
Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
Opportunity for annual RSU grants
Highly competitive benefits package
Company
Qualcomm
Qualcomm designs wireless technologies and semiconductors that power connectivity, communication, and smart devices.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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