CPU Micro-architect/RTL Designer

Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

Overview

We are hiring talented engineers for CPU RTL development targeted for high performance, low power devices. As a CPU Micro-architecture and RTL Design Engineer, you will work with chip architects to conceive of the micro-architecture, and also help with architecture/product definition through early involvement in the product life-cycle.

Responsibilities

• Performance exploration. Explore high performance strategies working with the CPU modeling team.
• Microarchitecture development and specification. From early high-level architectural exploration, through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification.
• RTL ownership. Development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals.
• Functional verification support. Help the design verification team execute on the functional verification strategy.
• Performance verification support. Help verify that the RTL design meets the performance goals.
• Design delivery. Work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power.

Preferred Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, prefetching, cache and memory subsystems
• Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL. Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
• Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications
• Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques
• Understanding of high performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
• Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ 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 3+ 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 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

EEO and Accommodations

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits

$167,100.00 - $250,700.00

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, 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. 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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