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Physical Design Engineer (all levels) - Cork, Ireland in Ireland

Company:

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

About the role

Qualcomm offers flexible work options tailored to our employee’s needs. These include a combination of work from home and working in our brand new, state of the art office in Penrose Dock, Cork

QCTs Digital ASIC Team is actively seeking candidates for several physical design engineering positions at our Cork, Ireland location. You will be part of an existing team that drive and execute on all phases of the complete physical design flow for the Modem subsystem in premium tier products, using latest CMOS technologies (5nm or below).

Responsibilities will include:

• You will be part of a world-wide team responsible for the complete Physical Design Flow for a major sub-system in Qualcomm MSM/MDM chips.

• Work on the physical design execution and integration of the IP into the SoC.

• Manage schedules, plans, status, risks and support cross-functional engineering effort

• Work with the RTL design teams on understanding design in context of physical design timing closure including developing of timing constraints required for implementation.

• Work with the DFT team on understand DFT design in regards to physical design timing closure.

• Enabling low power implementation methods

• ·Developing new scripts/flows to improve the PD flow.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• 2+ years Hardware Engineering experience or related work experience.

• Experience and knowledge of tools for physical design implementation in advanced technologies like 28nm, 20nm and 14nm CMOS.

• Knowledge of entire PD flow from netlist to GDS (Floorplanning, Power planning, Placement & Optimization, CTS, Routing, Post route optimization and DRC closure).

• Understanding of Floorplanning, Placement, CTS, P&R

• Experience in partitioning, pins assignment, time budgeting and feedthroughs.

• Experience using different techniques for low power designs and UPF/CPF flows.

• Good understanding of Primetime STA tool and timing closure methodologies.

• Developing and implementing timing ECOs including effect on congestion/routing/power.

• Understanding of power grid, clock tree, and low-power reduction implementation methods.

• Understanding of signal integrity and timing closure issues such as OCV/AOCV/Statistical Timing.

• Understanding of Physical Verification, Conformal Low Power (CLP), IR drop analysis, Formal Verification

• Expert in automation skills using Perl and tcl and able to develop/support flows related to floor planning, integration and design validation.

• Good communication skills and ability & desire to work in a cross-functional team environment.

What's on Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus

• Maternity/Paternity Leave

• Employee stock purchase scheme

• Matching pension scheme

• Education Assistance

• Relocation and immigration support

• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance

• Subsidised gym membership

• Bicycle purchase scheme

About Us

Qualcomm Cork, a greenfield site based in the beautiful harbour city of Cork opened its doors in August 2013 and has been growing ever since across our QCT Engineering, OneIT and HR teams. Qualcomm is now in a brand-new office in Penrose Dock in Cork’s City Centre

The Cork QCT engineering team is now over 300+ engineers strong and is continuing to expand. Our engineers work on all aspects of leading-edge technology (7nm, 5nm), including; Analog Mixed Signal, Security, Power Management, Sensors, Machine Learning, Modelling, Validation, Design Automation, Automotive and Physical Design. We are the R&D engine that benefits the world in three ways: Enabling Customers, Transforming Industries and Enriching Lives.

Where you will be working

Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe withpeople being employed by over 170 overseas companies.

There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.

A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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