**Company:** Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. **Job Area:** Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering **General Summary:** Join the Digital Technology (DTech) System-on-Chip (SoC) Research Lab at Qualcomm to explore and prototype novel circuit and system technologies for improving the performance, energy efficiency, reliability, security, and competitiveness of Qualcomm processor products, spanning CPUs, GPUs, neural signal processors (NSPs), and modems across a wide range of SoCs for IoT, mobile, laptop, automotive, and datacenter products. With Qualcomm’s expanding product portfolio, including automotive SoCs, machine learning (ML) processors for the datacenter, and SoCs for virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/AR), new challenges and opportunities emerge to deliver industry-leading performance, energy efficiency, security, and reliability. Collaborate with product hardware and software teams to identify these key challenges and opportunities. Research and develop novel circuit and system solutions to provide a competitive advantage for Qualcomm. Demonstrate circuit and system techniques via test-chip implementation and testing and then work with product teams to integrate the solutions into future Qualcomm processors. Examples may include low-power designs, variation-tolerant circuits and systems such as adaptive and resilient designs, power-management designs such as digital sensors and voltage regulators, ML circuit and system techniques, and security circuits and systems. Responsibilities include: - Researching and developing solutions to complex problems. - Implementing designs in test chips and testing the designs to assess the viability. - Collaborating with product teams to identify challenges and opportunities and to transfer new technologies into production processors. - Participating in IEEE conferences to stay informed of the state-of-the-art designs and observe key technology trends. - Mentoring and/or collaborating with university research projects. - Specific circuit and system design tasks include creating custom analog and/or digital circuits via schematic entry, layout, simulation, and optimization, generating high-level digital designs via RTL, synthesis, and timing analysis, silicon testing and debug, coding scripts for design implementation and testing, and generating documentation. **Candidate Requirements** Seeking individuals with a strong desire and track-record for performing high-value circuit and/or system research and development to benefit future processor products. Requires deep understanding of devices and circuits in advanced technology nodes. Experience with ML-specific microarchitecture and circuit designs is a plus. Requires excellent oral and written communication skills to effectively collaborate across local and global teams. **Candidate Experience** Recent PhD graduate in Electrical and/or Computer Engineering (ECE) with an internship in circuit or system design research or an MS ECE graduate with 3-5 years of experience in circuit and system design research. **Education Requirements** Requires BS and MS degrees in ECE. Preference is PhD in ECE. **Minimum Qualifications:** • Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. 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