Physical Design Engineer - Mixed Signal IP

Qualcomm • San Diego, CA

2d • $98,500 - $147,700 • Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a physical design engineer to join our design team in San Diego California. Successful candidate will be part of design group responsible to deliver IP implementation like high-speed DDR, USB, PCI, PLL and mixed Digital and Analog designs. This person should demonstrate extensive knowledge in physical design flow and methodologies to ensure high quality and timely release, successful silicon in nanometer technologies, understand key design challenges and solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields.
• A minimum of 6 years’ experience in physical design engineering
• Successful Tapeouts in Nanometer Technologies
• Understanding of complex foundry design rules and requirements
• In-depth knowledge of design flow RTL to GDS process
• Floor-planning
• Automatic and custom placement
• Multi-voltage power domains
• Pre-placement and pre-routing
• Power Design Networks PDN-planning
• Place & Route
• Clock Tree Synthesis and customization
• Static Timing Analysis
• Understand Timing constraints
• Fixing timing violations
• Physical Verification
• DRC, LVS, ERC, DFM
• Virtuoso is a plus
• Experience with industry leading tools
• Cadence
• Synopsys
• Mentor
• Ansys
• Working knowledge of programming languages, HDL, OS
• Python, C++, TCL, Perl, Awk
• Verilog/VHDL,Unix/Linux
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Automation with Perl, Python and tcl is plus

Nice To Haves

• Virtuoso is a plus
• Automation with Perl, Python and tcl is plus

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and direction to project execution.
• Manage project timelines, deliverables and track them to closure.
• Mentor, guide and help team members in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborate with design team and work with cross functional teams.
• Use good verbal and written communication skills to describe daily technical and non-technical issues
• Take responsibility for your own work and making decisions
• Exercise creativity to troubleshoot technical problems

Benefits

• competitive annual discretionary bonus program
• opportunity for annual RSU grants
• highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior