Synthesis Engineer, Staff

Job Description

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. Role: Hardware Engineer (Physical Synthesis/Timing) Key Responsibilities & Expertise Should have strong understanding and in-depth knowledge of Physical Synthesis and Synthesis methodologies with leading industry standard tools. Experience with writing timing constraints for synthesis, STA (Static Timing Analysis), timing closure and pipelining at different levels for performance optimization and timing closure. Experience in all aspects of timing closure for multi-clock domain designs . Should be familiar with MCMM (Multi-Corner Multi-Mode) synthesis and optimization . Should have good understanding of low-power design implementation using UPF (Unified Power Format) . Should be able to work independently with design, DFT (Design-for-Test) and PD (Physical Design) team for netlist delivery, timing constraints validation. Should be able to handle ECOs (Engineering Change Orders) and formal verification and maintain high quality matrix. Required Skills Experience with scripting language such as Perl/Python, TCL . Experience with different power optimization flows or techniques such as clock gating . Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.