Processor Micro Architect RTL Design Engineer (Multiple Levels)
Qualcomm· Semiconductors· Jun 16, 2026 · 4mo agoPosted 133 days ago
San Diego, California, United States of America
In office
Full-time
Mid
$130K–$175K est.
2+ years exp
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Job description
Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > DSP Architecture and Design
General Summary:
A variety of high performance, low power Hexagon cores are at the heart of Qualcomm’s multi-tier mobile SOC, IoT, Automotive roadmap. The Hexagon architecture is designed to deliver performance with low power and area over a variety of applications like Audio, Modem, Machine learning, IoT and Automotive.
This position involves in-depth understanding of the ASIC design flow from RTL to GDS2 and the challenges posed by advanced technologies. The successful candidate will possess detailed understanding of RTL design, synthesis, static timing analysis, formal verification, PLDRC, clock domain crossing, and low power techniques. Knowledge and experience of microprocessor design and development is a definite advantage.
The job responsibilities include:
• Work with architecture team to define micro-architecture for various blocks of Hexagon DSP core and sub-system
• Develop RTL for multiple logic blocks of Hexagon DSP core and sub-system for SoC integration
• Run various frontend tools to check for linting, clock domain crossing, etc
• Work with physical design team on design constrain and timing closure
• Work with low power team on power optimization
• Work with verification team to collaborate on test plan, coverage plan, and coverage closure
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Electrical Engineering or related work experience.
OR
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Electrical Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
Preferred Qualifications:
• Master’s or Doctor's degree in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering
• 3-15 years of practical experience with details of RTL development including:
• functional and structural RTL design, design partitioning,
• simulation and regression, collaboration with design verification team.
Experience with the following disciplines is highly desirable:
• Cache, memory coherency, memory consistency and bus protocol
• Multi-core microprocessor architecture
• low power design
Keywords
RTL, processor, Verilog, System Verilog, logic design, digital design, processor integration, bus interface, cache.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• 2+ years of experience with high-performance microprocessor design.
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :
$180,400.00 - $270,600.00
The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link .
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