NPU AI/Processor Architecture (RTL) Design-Sr Engineer

Overview

Qualcomm's Hexagon NPU Team is hiring engineers to develop high-performance, energy-efficient CPU and AI processors, including IP blocks that power Snapdragon processors and AI inference engines.

What you'll do

• Design RTL for high-performance CPU/AI processors, including RTL coding, micro-architecture and architecture.
• Work across CPU/AI processor design areas such as computer arithmetic, floating-point design, matrix multiply engines, vector extensions, memory sub-systems, branch prediction, out-of-order execution, schedulers, multi-processor and multi-threaded systems, and RISC-V.
• Optimize power, performance and area (PPA) and contribute to CPU sub-system logic design.
• Work on reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS), power management architecture and design, di/dt, voltage-noise, peak-current and thermal mitigation, and functional safety (FUSA).
• Work on system and silicon debug.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience, OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience, OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.
• Strong knowledge of CPU/AI processor micro-architecture, architecture, RTL design, debug architecture, RAS, and power management.
• Over 3+ years of experience is stated in the role summary.

Nice to have

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of experience with circuit design (e.g., digital, analog, RF).
• 2+ years of experience utilizing schematic capture and circuit simulation software.
• 2+ years of experience with hardware design and measurement instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF tools, etc.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Works independently with minimal supervision; decisions may affect work beyond the immediate work group.
• Requires verbal and written communication skills and collaboration with design, verification, validation, software, systems and architecture teams.