Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULC:

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

A leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all.

As Sr. Staff Design Micro-Architect in the Display IP team, you will be responsible for display architecture across multiple market segments including mobile, Automotive, compute, XR, and IoT. You will work within a multi-disciplinary, multi-site team of architects, designers and verification engineers to play a meaningful role in the definition, feature development, and commercialization of new display features across use cases.

You will:

• Participate in identifying key use cases and workloads showcasing the best of display IP
• Own core level display architecture definition for new features and use cases
• Define and document architectural features that scale across multiple markets
• Work with a cross-functional teams from display software, systems algorithm, as well as SoC and system performance/power teams.
• Collaborate with a team of SoC architects to define and represent display in end to end system level use cases
• Bring specifications to mature stage allowing design and implementation teams to actively engage
• Provide technical expertise and oversight through ASIC development and commercialization to ensure features meets defined end goals
• Make design protocol suggestions when required
• Trade-off different architectural options based on performance, power and area
• Define and patent novel architectures that drive industry leadership
• Utilize advanced problem solving and ASIC engineering practices to resolve complex architecture, design, or verification problems.
• Maintain regular communication with key team members to ensure continued alignment between team deliverables and product execution plan.
• Write technical documentation and provides technical expertise for design, project reviews, and project meetings to ensure team's best interest is represented
• Mentor and guide junior design engineers on the team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in architecting scalable features across multiple market segments
• Expertise in the following areas: Power management, clocking, memory hierarchies, Network On Chip (NoC) bus interconnects, caching architecture, security and access control, virtualization
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal, and communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science with foundation in VLSI concepts
• 10+ years ASIC design, verification, or related work experience
• Experience designing multimedia processing blocks such as Display, Camera, Video and/or Graphics.
• Familiarity with display interface standards such as Display Port, DSC, MIPI, HDMI
• Experience with embedded software development
• Comfortable making technical and business presentations to a wide range of audiences, including to senior management.
• Ability to independently drive activities/project with internal and external cross-functional teams
• Highly motivated detail oriented team player who possesses outstanding analytical skills
• Ability to deliver to work in fast-paced environment with multiple engagements in parallel

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. OR
  Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
  OR
  PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

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