- As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of whats possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all
- As a Qualcomm Systems Engineer, you will research, design, develop, simulate, and/or validate systems-level software, hardware, architecture, algorithms, and solutions that enables the development of cutting-edge technology
- Qualcomm Systems Engineers collaborate across functional teams to meet and exceed system-level requirements and standards
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
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- Masters degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
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- PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
- Infra Systems Architect for the next generation System-on-chip (SoC) for smartphones, tablets and other product categories.
This position will be responsible for
- Technical leadership role working with SOC architects, DMs and PDMs from early stages of the project to understand new usecases and feature requirements
- IP baseline selection, area projections and feature negotiations
- Convert the requirements to solutions and work with Infra IP development teams to flawlessly implement them
- Point of contact in Product core and architecture meetings in identifying and solving system level issues.
- Work with performance projection team to define experiments, analyze data, draw conclusions, identify potential problems and drive solutions
- Work with SoC, Verification, Physical Design, SoC Floorplan and core teams in identifying optimizations and drive them into products.
- Point of contact for debugging Post Si issues at system level.
Preferred Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience in SOC/IP architecture, micro-architecture and design.
- Good understanding of SOC. Possesses expertise in 1 or more of the following technical areas: DDR, Security, access control, Interconnects, SMMU, SOC power management, boot, clock/reset, UBWC, Encryption, ECC
- Understanding of ARM architecture (Coherency, bus interconnects, Security, arch evolution)
- Good communication and leadership skills; work with minimal supervision
- Collaborate with internal (Perf, Design and System team) and external (SoC arch, Client Ips) stakeholders in developing solutions
- Understanding of traffic patterns and BW of different clients a plus
- Experience with high-performance and low power micro-architecture concepts
- Experience with Verilog, logic design principles with timing, area and power implications.
- Experience with scripting languages like Perl/Python/Java for developing proof of concept of the new ideas.
- Performance: explore high performance strategies and validate that the micro architecture meets targeted performance.
- Understanding of interconnect protocols like AHB/AXI/ACE/ACE-Lite/CHI.
- Good understanding of the design convergence cycle in terms of architecture, micro-architecture, synthesis, timing closure and verification
- Good Understanding of concurrency, bandwidth, latency and system level aspects
- Provides direction, mentoring, and leadership from small to medium sized groups.
Education Requirements: Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering required, Masters or Doctorate preferred
