CPU RTL Power Engineer

About the role

Qualcomm India Private Limited seeks a CPU RTL Power Engineer for its Hardware Engineering group in Bangalore, India. The role focuses on developing ASICs and optimizing low power concepts for Snapdragon CPU designs in sub-10nm processes. Responsibilities include performing timing and power analysis, creating design experiments, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance performance and power metrics.

What you’ll do

• Participate in ASIC development involving low power concepts, checks, timing, and power analysis.
• Create design of experiments and perform detailed comparison analysis to improve quality of results.
• Collaborate with RTL, physical design, and automation teams to optimize performance and power.
• Tabulate metrics results for analysis and comparison.
• Apply low power, performance, and area optimization techniques throughout the ASIC flow.
• Utilize STA using Primetime and PTPX for signoff verification.
• Manage multiple power domains with complex UPF/CPF definitions.
• Leverage understanding of place and route tools.

What you’ll bring

Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, or related field plus 4+ years experience; OR Master's plus 3+ years; OR PhD plus 2+ years.

Nice to have

• 3-10 years of relevant work experience.
• Understanding of low power design and low power checks.
• Working knowledge of Primetime/Primepower, Synthesis/Constraints, and Signoff STA.
• Extensive experience with Primetime/ptpx, PowerArtist, and Synthesis tools.
• Experience with complete ASIC flow including low power, performance, and area optimization.
• Strong problem-solving and ASIC development/debugging skills.
• Experience with CPU micro-architecture, critical paths, and high-speed CPU implementation.
• Perl/Tcl scripting proficiency required.

Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. ORMaster's degree in Computer