SoC STA/Timing Engineer (Senior Staff/Principal)

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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/opticalsystems, 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:

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Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

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PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Job Description:

• 12 to 20 years of relavant experience is a must
• STA Setup & Signoff: Perform STA setup, convergence, reviews, and signoff for multi-mode, multi-voltage domain designs for SoC & SubSystem
• Timing Analysis & Debug: Validate and debug timing across multiple PVT conditions using tools like PrimeTime and Tempus.
• Flow Optimization: Run STA flows and correlate Spice to STA results.
• Methodology Development: Evaluate timing methodologies/tools across technology nodes and automate STA/PD flows using TCL/Perl/Python.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with design, DFT, synthesis, technology, CAD and physical implementation teams.
• Low-Power Techniques: Knowledge of clock gating, power gating, and multi-voltage designs.
• ECO Timing Flow: Handle timing ECOs (DMSA, tweaker, PrimeClosure) and logical equivalence checks (RTL to Netlist).

Required Skills

• Strong expertise in STA fundamentals, AOCV/POCV concepts, CTS, and timing constraints.
• Hands-on experience with STA tools: PrimeTime, Tempus.
• Familiarity with ASIC back-end flows: ICC2, Innovus.
• Knowledge of signal integrity, cross-talk noise, and parasitic extraction.
• Scripting proficiency: TCL, Perl, Python.
• Mentoring junior engineers in different areas of timing flows and methodologies
• Understanding of Spice simulations: Hspice, FineSim, Monte Carlo analysis.

Preferred Experience

• Driving timing convergence at chip-level and hard-macro level.
• Exposure to RTL-to-GDSII flows.
• Good technical writing and communication skills for cross-team collaboration

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