As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of whats possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all
As a Qualcomm Systems Engineer, you will research, design, develop, simulate, and/or validate systems-level software, hardware, architecture, algorithms, and solutions that enables the development of cutting-edge technology
Qualcomm Systems Engineers collaborate across functional teams to meet and exceed system-level requirements and standards

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Masters degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
Infra Systems Architect for the next generation System-on-chip (SoC) for smartphones, tablets and other product categories.

This position will be responsible for

Technical leadership role working with SOC architects, DMs and PDMs from early stages of the project to understand new usecases and feature requirements
IP baseline selection, area projections and feature negotiations
Convert the requirements to solutions and work with Infra IP development teams to flawlessly implement them
Point of contact in Product core and architecture meetings in identifying and solving system level issues.
Work with performance projection team to define experiments, analyze data, draw conclusions, identify potential problems and drive solutions
Work with SoC, Verification, Physical Design, SoC Floorplan and core teams in identifying optimizations and drive them into products.
Point of contact for debugging Post Si issues at system level.

Preferred Qualifications

15+ years of experience in SOC/IP architecture, micro-architecture and design.
Good understanding of SOC. Possesses expertise in 1 or more of the following technical areas: DDR, Security, access control, Interconnects, SMMU, SOC power management, boot, clock/reset, UBWC, Encryption, ECC
Understanding of ARM architecture (Coherency, bus interconnects, Security, arch evolution)
Good communication and leadership skills; work with minimal supervision
Collaborate with internal (Perf, Design and System team) and external (SoC arch, Client Ips) stakeholders in developing solutions
Understanding of traffic patterns and BW of different clients a plus
Experience with high-performance and low power micro-architecture concepts
Experience with Verilog, logic design principles with timing, area and power implications.
Experience with scripting languages like Perl/Python/Java for developing proof of concept of the new ideas.
Performance: explore high performance strategies and validate that the micro architecture meets targeted performance.
Understanding of interconnect protocols like AHB/AXI/ACE/ACE-Lite/CHI.
Good understanding of the design convergence cycle in terms of architecture, micro-architecture, synthesis, timing closure and verification
Good Understanding of concurrency, bandwidth, latency and system level aspects
Provides direction, mentoring, and leadership from small to medium sized groups.

Education Requirements: Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering required, Masters or Doctorate preferred

PE - Infra Systems Architect