Signoff Static Timing Analysis and Spice CAD Engineer

Qualcomm • San Diego, CA

106d • $98,500 - $147,700 • Remote

About The Position

Join QCOM Technologies Inc vibrant Global CAD team pushing the limits of Signoff solutions for the Snapdragon chips powering billions of mobile devices. The position requires Signoff Timing and spice simulation experience, with CAD development skills to define and develop tools and methodologies for accuracy, compute, in close collaboration with Snapdragon Physical Design and Timing teams. Qualcomm is using leading edge internal and EDA technologies in the Signoff domain, including pioneering in genAI/ML, and developing good-by-construction hierarchical solution, as well as enabling the latest STA features to reduce conservatism in Signoff.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Deep knowledge of STA features and Timing concepts.
• 2-6 years of experience in Signoff Timing of SoCs at either top-level or block-level.
• 2-6 years of experience with scripting tools and programming languages: Python and TCL preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree, Masters degree or PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field. Maths minor is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Improving the Timing and Cell Characterization methodology for diverse Mobile, Compute, AI, IoT Snapdragon chips.
• Participate in the enablement and validation of new cell characterization methodologies and features, through careful spice correlation and CAD development.
• Collaborate with AI team on ground-breaking initiatives for compute and turn-around time reduction.
• Correlation of STA tools with spice, version-to-version validation.
• Provide solutions to the Snapdragon design teams, analyze their requests, and address their requests through ticket queues.
• Interfacing with EDA vendors to enable production-ready tool sets that satisfy project's requirement.
• Setting up, augmenting, and maintaining a regression of complex STA designs.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees