CPU Micro-Architecture and RTL Design Engineer (RISC-V) at Qualcomm | Santa Clara, CA | Rezi

CPU Micro-Architecture and RTL Design Engineer (RISC-V) at Qualcomm

CPU Micro-Architecture and RTL Design Engineer (RISC-V)

Qualcomm · Santa Clara, CA

3 weeks ago

CPU Micro-Architecture and RTL Design Engineer (RISC-V)

Qualcomm · Santa Clara, CA

22 days ago
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About the Role

Qualcomm is seeking talented engineers for CPU RTL development focused on high-performance, low-power devices utilizing the RISC-V Architecture. As a CPU Micro-architecture and RTL Design Engineer, you will collaborate with chip architects on micro-architecture conception and contribute to architecture/product definition throughout the product life-cycle.

Responsibilities

  • Explore high-performance strategies in collaboration with the CPU modeling team.
  • Develop and specify micro-architecture from early architectural exploration to detailed specification.
  • Develop, assess, and refine RTL design to meet power, performance, area, and timing goals.
  • Support the design verification team in executing the functional verification strategy.
  • Verify that the RTL design meets performance goals.
  • Work with multi-functional engineering teams to implement and validate physical design aspects including timing, area, reliability, and testability.

Requirements

  • Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture, with expertise in areas such as instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, prefetching, cache and memory subsystems.
  • Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL.
  • Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools.
  • Knowledge of logic design principles, including timing and power implications.
  • Understanding of low-power microarchitecture techniques.
  • Understanding of high-performance techniques and trade-offs in CPU microarchitecture.
  • Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python.

Skills

  • CPU RTL development
  • RISC-V Architecture
  • Micro-architecture development
  • RTL design
  • Functional verification
  • Performance verification
  • Physical design implementation
  • Verilog
  • VHDL
  • Simulation tools
  • Waveform debugging
  • Logic design
  • Low-power microarchitecture
  • High-performance techniques
  • Scripting languages (Perl, Python)

Location

  • USA

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of relevant work experience.
  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of relevant work experience.
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of relevant work experience.

Education Level

  • Bachelor's degree
  • Master's degree
  • PhD

Salary/Compensations

  • $167,100.00 - $250,700.00

Benefits

  • Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
  • Opportunity for annual RSU grants
  • Highly competitive benefits package

About the Company

  • Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G, ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives.
  • Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process for individuals with disabilities.
  • Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including security and protection of Company confidential information.

Equal Opportunity

  • Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.
  • Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process for individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process.
  • Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities.