Sr PD Engineer

Qualcomm-Atheros, a.k.a. QCA http://www.qualcomm.com/qca/ is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm and a leading provider of wireless technologies for the mobile, networking, computing and consumer electronics markets. As a key member of a fast-paced Integrated Wireless Technology team. The role will be part of a team responsible for the complete Physical Design Flow and deliveries of complex, high-speed, low power designs.

Responsibilities: Qualcomm’s Connectivity SoC organization is seeking candidates for physical design engineering positions in our SOC and core design team. As a physical design engineer you will innovate, develop, and implement chips and cores using state-of-the-art tools and technologies.

• Tasks also involve the tiles level development and enablement of low power implementation methods, customized P&R to achieve area reduction, performance, and power goals.

• Additional responsibilities in this role involves the experience of

  • functional and test (DFT) mode constraints for place and route,

  • floorplanning, power planning

  • IR drop analysis

  • routing, timing optimization and closure

  • implementing timing fixes and functional ECOs

  • debugging and fixing physical violations and formal verification.

• The individual also should have deep knowledge on scripting and software languages including Python, PERL/TCL, Linux/Unix shell.

• This individual will design, verify, and deliver complex Physical Design solutions from netlist and timing constraints to the final product.

Required Skill/experience:

2+ years industry experience in the following areas

• Tiles level or sub-system level or SoC top level physical design successful tapeout experience

• Floorplanning of macro cells

• Place & Route (PNR) tool experience on Cadence Innovus and/or Synopsys Fusion Compiler

• Timing closure (STA) experience in Synopsys PTSI

• Function ECO implementation

• Formal verification (FV) experience

• Power domain analysis (IR Drop/PDN) experience

• Physical verification (PV) experience

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