Company

Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm ASIC Engineer, you will define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for a variety of high performance, high quality, low power world class products. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional groups to determine product execution path.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
  
  
  

OR

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 7+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
• 12+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• 4+ years of experience with architecture and design tools.
• 4+ years of experience with scripting tools and programming languages.
• 4+ years of experience with design verification methods.
• 2+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above).
• 1+ year of working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
  
  
  

Principal Duties And Responsibilities

• Leverages expert ASIC knowledge and experience to implement and drive the development of a variety of high performance, high quality, low power products.
• Influences and communicates the guidelines for creating advanced architectures, circuit specifications, logic designs, and/or system simulations based on system-level requirements.
• Collaborates with high-level representatives across functional teams (e.g., software architecture, hardware architecture, product management, program management teams) to develop, communicate, and execute an implementation strategy that meets system requirements and customer needs.
• Influences all aspects of the process flow from high-level design to synthesis, place and route, timing and power use, and verification or similarly for custom circuit design/layout flow.
• Drives the execution and enablement of architecture and design of blocks/SoC or IC Packages; ensures that appropriate resources and procedures are in place to execute implementation strategy.
• Communicates guidelines across teams for writing and reviewing technical documentation for EDA/IP/ASIC projects; writes and reviews technical documentation for highly complex projects.
  
  
  

Level Of Responsibility

• Provides supervision to other supervisors/managers who are direct reports.
• Decision-making is critical in nature and highly impacts program, product, or project success.
• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey highly complex and/or detailed information. May require strong negotiation and influence with large groups or high-level constituents.
• Has a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is making or directly making key decisions that will have substantial impact over the organization).
• Tasks often require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; extensive planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.
  
  
  

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Pay Range And Other Compensation & Benefits

$222,600.00 - $333,800.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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