Senior Engineer, Cpu

**Company**:
Qualcomm Global Trading Pte. Ltd.

**Job Area**:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

**General Summary**:
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm CPU Engineer, you will lead innovative Central Processing Unit (CPU) design efforts that have a critical impact on industries across the world. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, verify, and implement multi-core CPU operations for all Qualcomm Business Units.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 2+ years of work experience with high-performance microprocessor design.
- 2+ years of work experience with high level programming (e.g., C, C++), scripting language programming (e.g., Perl, Python, etc.).
- 2+ years of work experience with simulators and/or waveform debugging tools (e.g., Verilog, VHDL, etc.).
- 2+ years of work experience with industry standard tools for synthesis place and/or route and design verification.
- 2+ years of work experience with simulation, emulation, formal verification, or silicon validation.
- 2+ years of experience in creating functional models, checkers, test plans, and/or test generation.
- 1+ year experience working in a large matrixed organization.

**Principal Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Applies knowledge of computer architecture, micro-architecture, logic design, circuits, and/or physical design to develop and verify high performance and low power CPU designs.
- Anticipates, identifies, and solves problems to ensure design completeness, functionality, power, and performance.
- Collaborates across teams to define requirements, specifications, and trade-offs (e.g., performance, power, cost, functionalities, etc.) in order to accomplish product goals.
- Evaluates the design process from conceptualization to productization (i.e., architecture definition, feasibility, pre-silicon design and verification, and post-silicon validation) that meet customer and industry standards.
- Writes detailed technical documentation (e.g., feature descriptions, architectural descriptions, verification test plans, and implementation details, etc.) for CPU designs.

**Level of Responsibility**:

- Works independently with mínimal supervision.
- Decision-making may affect work beyond immediate work group.
- Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey information. May require basic negotiation, influence, tact, etc.
- Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions.
- Tasks require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; some planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- 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.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.