SOC Power Architect

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Research, innovate and provide SoC architecture solutions across Qualcomm business units including next gen mobile platform, automotive ADAS, XR/VR and IOT. Engage collaboratively across teams and organizational boundaries, including with Hardware design & Verification, Software, Product Management and Product Planning teams to create leading SoC-wide solutions that provide the best-in-class cost, performance, and power. Develop, model and prototype new system solutions and approaches across functional tech IPs that allow our hardware technologies to be used efficiently and allow our customers to make better use of our hardware. Conduct hands-on workload analysis including algorithm optimization and analysis of performance and/or power characterizations to help define our SoC architecture solutions. Deploy simulators, profilers, and hardware solutions to provide quantitative justification for architectural directions. Efficiently communicate experimental results, review with technical leads and peers, and analyze outstanding issues. Innovate and develop new cross-IP SoC-wide solutions that enable existing and emerging market SoCs to meet their separate, unique product requirements for these technology areas: Power System, Shared Resource Management, Limits/Thermal Management, Hardware Islands, Memory Management, Control Processors.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.

The responsibilities of this role include: 

• Lead architecture exploration to meet PPAT target
• Mentors and coaches junior team members and oversees project improvements
• Efficient and effective communication with different teams
• Advises and presents findings to management

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Gathers, researches, and helps define cross-functional requirements (e.g., performance, power, cost).
• Develops architecture for complex feature components under broad guidance.
• Debugs complex issues for own and others' code and recommends solutions; participates in model/design reviews and helps identify model/design improvements.
• Builds advanced models, maintains platform, methodology, and tools for modeling and runs simulations and analyses of power, performance, and other KPIs at the block level;
• Works with team to evaluate the impact of results on system or customer requirements.
• Consults with internal or external users to guide implementation of feature architecture and ensure alignment with their needs and goals.
• Propagate deep knowledge in a specific area.
• Stays abreast of current and future trends to make suggestions in strategic discussions within a domain about the product/technology roadmap.
• Contributes to conversations to generate new ideas for new initiatives; provides recommendations for new directions to explore.
• Writes clear and detailed technical documentation, specifications, and/or feature descriptions for complex projects to guide users and/or customers to use or implement output.

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience in SoC power management
• ARM based SoC experience is a plus
• Expertise knowledge in DVFS, thermal and limits management, di/dt handling is desired.
• Work experience with low power implementation such as power gating, isolation, level shifting is desired.
• Fluent in Python, perl or other script language

Although this role has some expected minor physical activity, this should not deter otherwise qualified applicants from applying. If you are an individual with a physical or mental disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, please call Qualcomm’s toll-free number found here for assistance. Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, to support individuals with disabilities as part of our ongoing efforts to create an accessible workplace.

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Pay range:

$180,000.00 - $270,000.00

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!

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