Signoff Static Timing Analysis CAD Engineer

Qualcomm • San Diego, CA

70d • $98,500 - $147,700

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 Static Timing Analysis (STA) knowledge, with CAD development skills to define and develop tools and methodologies for accuracy, compute, in close collaboration with EDA Vendors and Snapdragon Design 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.
• Experience of Synopsys Primetime STA tool (preferred), or alternatively of Cadence tempus STA tool, or of the timing engines of synthesis and place and route tools.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Improving the Signoff Timing methodology for diverse Mobile, Compute, AI, IoT Snapdragon chips.
• Participate in the enablement and validation of new methodologies and features.
• Collaborate with AI team on ground-breaking initiatives for compute and turn-around time reduction.
• Interfacing with Synopsys and Cadence EDA Vendors to bring up new STA technologies enabling production-ready tool sets that satisfy project’s requirement.
• Follow up on issues faced by the Design and CAD teams on the tools.
• Provide solutions to the Snapdragon design teams, analyze their requests, and address their requests through ticket queues.
• 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

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees