CAD Front End CPU Methodology and Automation Engineer, Sr Staff

Qualcomm

Bengaluru, INonsitePosted Jul 24, 2026
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Skills

airflowjenkinspythoncicd

About the role

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary:

Responsibilities

As a CAD Methodology and Automation Engineer, you will work with RTL, architecture, design, DV, software, and silicon verification users. with atleast 8+ years experience.

Focus on generating new ideas, proving those, putting together flows/methodologies around those, and incorporating those in implementation flow for CPU designs.

Collaborate with chip leads to determine new areas in Front-End/Design Verification to support current or future designs that can benefit from automation and tooling

Define and implement new infrastructure capabilities that can be used to accelerate design and development utilizing multi-site datacenters

Drive consensus across business units on tool & design methodology

Work closely with design teams to define methodologies, drive flow development, and deploy vendor tools

Interfaces with various cross functional teams and external vendors to define, drive and incorporate the latest design solutions to improve productivity and time to market.

Support design engineers on the flow setup and resolve their queries

Qualifications

Must have strong object-oriented programming abilities in Python; Must have Linux knowledge and experience with data-management software

Must have worked on Digital flows/methodologies development in the DV domains like Simulation, Emulation and Formal verification.

Experience with CI/CD platform (like Airflow and Jenkins) and Version Control System (like Perforce and/or Git).

MS/BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering with 10+ years of demonstrated experience in CAD or EDA tools flows architecture, development, and support.

Demonstrated experience with various EDA software, flows, and architectures & driving EDA vendors to provide feature enhancements and bugfixes.

Ability to document design methodologies & provide training on tools and workflows to design teams

Strong skills in debugging and analyzing techniques to understand existing scripts/flows; Ability to work independently and explore new domains

Proven track record of pushing Prior experience debugging vendor tool problems

Strong written and verbal interpersonal skills and track record of success in a collaborative team environment

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

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