CPU Micro-architect/RTL Designer - Qualcomm - France

Publication date

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  • Closing date
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October 2023
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  • Until filled 
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  • Bachelor’s or Master’s or PhD
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Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age – and this is where you come in.

We are hiring talented engineers for CPU RTL development targeted for high performance, low power devices. As a CPU Micro-architecture and RTL Design Engineer, you will work with chip architects to conceive of the micro-architecture, and also help with architecture/product definition through early involvement in the product life-cycle.

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Roles & responsibilities

This role is located in Issy Les Moulineaux, France

Responsibilities:

– Performance exploration. Explore high performance strategies working with the CPU modelling team.

– Microarchitecture development and specification. From early high-level architectural exploration, through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification.

– RTL ownership. Development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals.

– Functional verification support. Help the design verification team execute on the functional verification strategy.

– Performance verification support. Help verify that the RTL design meets the performance goals.

– Design delivery. Work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability and testability

Preferred Qualifications:

– Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, prefetching, cache and memory subsystems

– Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL. Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools

– Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications

– Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques

– Understanding of high performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture

– Experience using a scripting language such as Perl or Python

Minimum Qualifications:

– Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and 4+ years of CPU Engineering or related work experience

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– Masters/PhD and 2+ years of CPU Engineering or related work experience

*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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