SoC Power Design Engineer

Full-time - Entry Level

Remote - San Diego, CA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm ASIC Engineer, you will define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for a variety of high performance, high quality, low power world class products. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional groups to determine product execution path. Qualcomm's Global SoC Power team is currently seeking candidate whose primary role is to implement and validate low power design intent requirements at the SoC-level. The role also expands to power analysis and projection of SoC Use Case power. The candidate will work with frontend RTL, DFT, Synthesis, Design Verification and Physical Design teams during the SoC development. Also the candidate will have the opportunity to work with IP designers, power target (Chipset/SW) teams, and Post-Silicon test teams to jointly ensure power intent design requirements and power projections are fully validated.

Responsibilities

• Work with frontend RTL, DFT, Synthesis, and Physical design teams in the development of power intent design at SoC level
• Generate and validate power intent design (UPF) at SoC level
• Review designs and guide IP designers' power intent design ensuring it meets SoC level low power implementation requirements
• Work with design verification in validating low power design features at SoC and IP level
• Collaborate with company CAD and vendor to enhance existing power flows and tools
• Improve power design flows in areas of power modeling, clock power analysis, structural power validation, IP power intent QA
• Execute power-aware implementation flow, including UPF/CPF/Conformal Low Power Check
• Review IP design's power features and power budgets/estimates
• Track IP power development through the design cycle ensuring it meets power budgets - leakage/dynamic at every milestone
• Perform power analysis/projection of SoC baseline power and deliver SoC power models to chipset
• Execute power simulation/analysis tool (PtPx/PowerArtist)

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
• ASIC frontend development
• Logic design, RTL coding, verification, synthesis, and timing closure
• Hardware description languages (Verilog, VHDL, System Verilog)
• Power-aware implementation flow, including UPF/CPF/Conformal Low Power Check
• Scripting - Perl/Tcl/Python

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
• Familiarity of overall SoC Infrastructure - DDR, Busses, CPUs, I/Os and DFT Components
• Familiarity of power islands, power gating, power sequencing and multi-voltage domain design
• Power analysis familiarity in areas of clocktree, peak power, TDP, limits management

Benefits

• Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
• Opportunity for annual RSU grants
• Highly competitive benefits package designed to support success at work, at home, and at play