Principal Engineer

Overview

Principal ASIC Engineer role at Qualcomm India, leading the definition, design, verification and documentation of high performance, low power IP (block/SoC) development and collaborating across functional groups to determine the product execution path.

What you'll do

• Leverage expert ASIC knowledge and experience to define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for a variety of high performance, high quality, low power products.
• Create highly advanced architectures, circuit specifications, logic designs, and/or system simulations based on system-level requirements.
• Collaborate with high-level representatives across functional teams (e.g., software architecture, hardware architecture, product management, program management teams) to develop and execute an implementation strategy that meets system requirements and customer needs.
• Serve as an expert resource for all aspects of the process flow from high-level design to synthesis, place and route, timing and power use, and verification or similarly for custom circuit design/layout flow.
• Utilize tools/applications (e.g., RTL to GDS Flow, Virtuoso) to execute and enable highly advanced architecture and design of multiple complex blocks/SoC or IC Packages; provide technical expertise and support to team members.
• Write detailed technical documentation for highly complex EDA/IP/ASIC projects; review technical documentation for experienced engineers.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience, OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 7+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience, OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Nice to have

• Master's degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
• 12+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• 4+ years of experience with architecture and design tools.
• 4+ years of experience with scripting tools and programming languages.
• 4+ years of experience with design verification methods.
• 2+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above).

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Level of responsibility: provides supervision to direct reports; decision-making is critical and highly impacts program, product, or project success; has a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions.
• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey highly complex and/or detailed information, and may require strong negotiation and influence with large groups or high-level constituents.