CPU RTL Power Engineer (Sr Staff/Principal)

About the role

Qualcomm seeks a CPU RTL Power Engineer for its Snapdragon CPU design team in Bangalore, India. The role focuses on low power concepts, timing analysis, and optimization for high-performance SoCs in sub-10nm processes. This is an on-site position requiring extensive experience with ASIC flows and power domain definitions.

What you’ll do

• Participate in ASIC development involving low power concepts, low power checks, and timing/power analysis.
• Create design of experiments and perform detailed comparison analysis to improve quality of results.
• Collaborate with RTL design, physical design, low power, and automation teams to optimize performance and power.
• Tabulate metrics results for analysis and comparison.

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

• 12+ years of experience in low power design understanding and low power checks.
• Working knowledge of Primetime/PrimePower, Synthesis/Constraints, and Signoff STA.
• Extensive experience with Primetime/ptpx, PowerArtist, and Synthesis with DCT/DCG or RC/RCP.
• Experience completing ASIC flow with low power, performance, and area optimization techniques.
• Understanding of multiple power domains with complex UPF/CPF definition.
• Required Perl/Tcl scripting skills.
• Strong problem-solving and ASIC development/debugging skills.
• Experience with CPU micro-architecture, critical paths, and high-speed CPU implementation.

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. OR Master's degree in Computer