SoC STA Engineer (All levels)

Job Description

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware 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 Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. Responsibilities: STA setup, convergence, reviews and signoff for multi-mode, multi-voltage domain designs. Timing analysis, validation and debug across multiple PVT conditions using PT/Tempus. Run Primetime and/or Tempus for STA flow optimization and Spice to STA correlation. Evaluate multiple timing methodologies/tools on different designs and technology nodes. Work on automation scripts within STA/PD tools for methodology development. Good Technical writing and Communication skills, should be willing to work in cross-collaborative environment Experience in design automation using TCL/Perl/Python. Familiar with digital flow design implementation RTL to GDS ICC, Innovous , PT/Tempus Familiar with process technology enablementCircuit simulations using Hspice/FineSim, Monte Carlo. Education B.Tech or MTech/MS in Electrical/Electronics/Microelectronics/VLSI. Preferred Qualification/Skills Strong expertise in STA timing analysis basics, AOCV/POCV concepts, CTS, defining and managing timing constraints, Latch transparency handling, 0-cycle, multi-cycle path handling Hands-on experience with STA tools - Prime-time, Tempus Have experience in driving timing convergence at Chip-level and Hard-Macro level In-depth knowledge cross-talk noise, Signal Integrity, Layout Parasitic Extraction, feed through handling, Knowledge of ASIC back-end design flows and methods and tools (ICC2, Innovus) Knowledge of Spice simulation Hspice/FineSim, Monte Carlo. Silicon to spice model correlation. Proficient is scripting languages- TCL, Perl, Awk Basic knowledge of device physics