Memory Designer

Company Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary This position involves designing and implementing low-power, high performance, area-efficient embedded memory circuits and architectures. As part of the Memory IP team, you will take innovative and revolutionary ideas and turn them into reality in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon products. This is a highly visible role where your design will highly influence various parts of CPU/GPU/Modem/NSP/Camera designs. Position will be located in San Diego, CA.

• Responsibilities
• As a member of our team, your responsibilities will include (but not limited to):

• Develop custom digital circuits for high-speed and low-power SRAM designs.
• Schematic capture, simulation of major blocks, margin verifications
• Layout planning and supervision
• Interacting with CAD team for full verification and model generation
• Interacting with SoC teams (CPU, GPU, Modem, etc) to define memory PPA targets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of academic or professional experience designing embedded memories for SoC applications.
• Strong knowledge in CPU L1/L2 cache design, compiler SRAM/Register File architectures and advanced custom circuit implementations
• Strong knowledge of high-performance and low-power design features & techniques
• Strong knowledge of semiconductor device fundamentals
• Familiar with variation-aware design in nanomenter CMOS & FinFet technology nodes
• Experience with tight pitch-matched memory layout designs
• Experience with full embedded memory design flow: architecture, circuit design, physical implementation, compiler automation, characterization, timing and model generation
• Good understanding of physical implementation impact on circuit performance

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

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Pay Range And Other Compensation & Benefits $140,000.00 - $210,000.00

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