Front End Design Engineer, Sr Lead

Company:Qualcomm India Private Limited
Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary:

Minimum Qualifications
• This position is open for 4+ years’ experience candidate in Qualcomm CSI (Custom/SemiCustom implementation) team
• Candidate will be part of CSI team working on RTL- GDS HM implementations using custom flow and methodology for CSI IP’s .
• Qualcomm is one of the fastest growing semiconductor organization in India making high-end Chips with the most advanced technologies. To support its growing needs, we have strong CSI team for the design, development of various highspeed and low power IP’s being used in SoC. Individual has to work on RTL-GDS implementation. This will involve innovating new solutions in close collaboration with the other design teams.

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.
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Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
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PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Job Responsibilities: 

• Job responsibilities include design and development of custom macro using

  
  
  

  • Schematic design at block level (Ex RegArray, memory subsystem)

    
    
    

  • Frontend verification and model generations

    
    
    

  • CLP/PAGLS/LEC verifications at block level.

    
    
    

  • Functional verification using spice/gatesim.

    
    
    

  • Timing Signoff using PT,

    
    
    

• Candidate should be able to collaborate with different teams.

  
  
  

Skillset/Experience:

• 2-4 year of experience:

  
  
  

• Strong knowledge in transistor circuit design& block level logic design of Memory subsystem & Data path.

  
  
  

• STA for the design to close Set-up, Hold, MPW, Transition, etc

  
  
  

• Design verification using ESPCV & LEC, Simulation using Finesim & HSPICE.

  
  
  

• Front-end RTL Design (Verilog RTL design, System Verilog, Synopsys Design Compiler, Cadence RTL Compiler, LEC, PLDRC, Static Timing Analysis and PTPX)

  
  
  

• Physical Design using industry-standard RTL2GDS flow including Synopsys ICC2, Cadence Encounter.

  
  
  

• Scripting in Perl/Python/Shell/Tcl for productivity is a plus

  
  
  

• IP development (custom macro transistor level design, physical integration, collateral generation, flow development) and PPA quantification.

  
  
  

• Interface with Process Technology Team to understand the complex DRC and DFM requirements of the advanced technology nodes

  
  
  

• Work with cross functional teams (Architecture, Test/Verification , Product, CAD, Layout, Physical Design) to gather/define/implement specs

  
  
  

• Transistor level implementation of the block using CMOS/Domino/Cell-Based/Data path styles

  
  
  

• Implement power/clock gating techniques, Implement power/clock gating techniques, Implement industry standard as well as custom DFT techniques

  
  
  

• Implement clock distribution using custom/CTS techniques for low skew/latency/power, Implement block layout using custom/compiler techniques using custom/semi-custom/stdcell libraries

  
  
  

• Implement block level floor planning using custom and/or tiling techniques

  
  
  

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