CPU/NPU Architecture RTL Design Engineer

QualcommMarkham, ON
CA$104,900 - CA$154,900Onsite

About The Position

Join us to build IP blocks that power Snapdragon processors and AI inference engines. Qualcomm's Hexagon NPU Team is hiring for the various positions in Markham, Canada for the development of high-performance, energy-efficient CPU and AI processors. Hexagon NPU is an in-house built Qualcomm proprietary processor which is the center of Qualcomm's hybrid AI computing capability targeted for a broad spectrum of AI use cases across market segments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
  • Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
  • PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • strong knowledge in CPU/AI processor micro-architecture, architecture
  • RTL design
  • debug architecture
  • power-management and circuit design.

Nice To Haves

  • ideally 2+ years of experience

Responsibilities

  • RTL Design of high-performance CPU/AI processors
  • RTL coding, micro-architecture and architecture
  • Computer Arithmetic
  • Instruction fetch, scheduling and register renaming
  • Fixed-Point, Floating-Point design
  • Matrix Multiply engines
  • Vector Extensions
  • Memory sub-systems, Load/store, caches, atomics, coherence and consistency
  • Branch prediction, out-of-order, dispatch, schedulers
  • Multi-processor and multi-threaded systems
  • RISC-V
  • Power, performance and Area (PPA) optimizations
  • CPU sub-system Logic Design

Benefits

  • competitive annual discretionary bonus program
  • opportunity for annual RSU grants
  • highly competitive benefits package
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