Senior HW Design Engineer

Company: Qualcomm India Private Limited

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 Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

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.

Experience And Expertise: In this role, you will contribute towards design of post silicon validation boards as well as customer reference platforms for Qualcomm’s Automotive SOCs. The role will involve hands-on HW architecture definition, schematics capture, providing CAD inputs and layout reviews, vendor interaction, BOM management, Board Bring up & validation and supporting internal and external customers.

This role requires working closely with cross functional teams including CAD, Mechanical, Packaging, SI-PI, Manufacturing, component Engineering, procurement, product marketing, Silicon validation, Software & Customer Engineering teams.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ year s of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field

Preferred Experience/Qualifications:

• Highly skilled hands-on Engineer with minimum 2 plus years’ experience in the High-speed digital board design, high speed DRAM interfacing, power circuitry design with LDO, buck/boost regulators, non-volatile memory, processor/SOC based design, bring-up and debug skills.
• Hands-on experience EDA tools for schematic capture (Dx Designer preferred) and layout review, signal integrity etc. is required.
• Project level leadership experience is a must. Managerial experience is a plus.
• Expertise in full development life cycle (Requirements to Production Qualification and Support) and configuration management for managing associated documentation (BOMs, schematics, drawings etc.)
• Expertise in handling Lab equipment and test & measurement tools like oscilloscopes, multi-meters, signal generators, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, spectrum analyzers etc.
• Experience with FPGA/CPLD RTL design is desirable.
• Board design experience with high speed interfaces such as PCIE Gen5, USXGMII, UFS, USB 3.2/ USB4, is desired.
• Technical expertise with DDR memory like DDR3, DDR4, DDR5, LPDDR4, LPDDR5 etc. and non-volatile memory like UFS, eMMC, SD Card etc.
• Experience in designing hardware for semiconductor testing is desired.
• Familiarity with typical data and control interfaces (Examples include UART, USB, SPI, I2C etc.) is desired.
• Signal integrity simulation expertise is a plus.
• Must be self-driven and have good communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a multi-disciplined team and across sites.
• Good presentation skills required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design of High-Speed board designs involving high speeds peripherals like PCIE Gen 5, USB3.2/USB4, USXGMII etc and memory interfaces like LPDDR5, UFS etc
• Publishing design specifications (i.e. Requirements, Architectural, Functional, Test, etc), test plans.
• Schematics drafting, Interfacing with Mechanical engineers for system level design and collaborating with CAD team in providing interface-wise design constraints and Layout reviews etc.
• Conducting Design reviews from concept phase to design release.
• Running Power integrity and Signal integrity simulations as required. Collaborating with SIPI teams for final signoffs.
• Interface with component engineering, vendors and manufacturing teams
• Releasing BOMs and detailed user guide with documentation control
• Support validation and SW teams during bring-up tests and debugging system level issues.
• Performing detailed DVT and publishing DVT reports
• Platform sustenance and support with internal and external customers
• Supporting debugs on failures seen in customer designs

Applicants : Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

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.

To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies : Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.

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