RTL Design (Director)

Hyderabad, IndiaPosted Jul 16, 2026
## Company: Qualcomm India Private Limited ## Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering General Summary: Preferred Qualifications: • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field. • 15+ years of SoC design, verification, synthesis / implementation related work experience * Thorough understanding of Digital design concepts * Knowledge of state of the art SoC design flows * Experience in delivering RTL2GDSII * Good understanding of ARM based SoC architectures would be a plus * Understanding of Bus protocols like AHB/AXI/ACE/ACE-Lite • 5+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above). Principal Duties and Responsibilities: • Holds team accountable and provides technical expertise and support to team members to ensure architecture and design tasks are completed on time. • Leads complex implementation strategy development that meets system requirements and customer needs for team. • Acts as the technical expert in resolving highly complex architecture, design, or verification problems when provided with incomplete, ambiguous or conflicting requirements. • Holds team accountable and provides technical expertise for the design and verification strategies of the IP core team members to ensure customer and program needs are met. • Directs team to add additional test cases when necessary to ensure that the most complex bugs are fully understood and analyzed. • Provides technical expertise and support to team members to ensure power checks are completed on time. • Reviews the process of interpreting reports derived from performance checks for various blocks to ensure potential obstacles are identified and provides a mitigation plan for identified issues. • Acts as a tech lead on innovative technologies to drive advances; influences standards. • Reviews technical documentation for large projects before publication and provides feedback on the documentation, and requirements as needed. • Serves as a technical lead by participating in cross-functional groups to ensure a feasible product execution path and communicates this path to team. • Drives technical conversation in design or project reviews and project meetings and ensures cross functional team alignment on project tasks, and best interests are represented. • Acts as a tech lead on major projects to ensure they are driven to completion (e.g. timely, on budget). • Learns and applies lessons from past projects; acts as a tech lead in the recommendation and implementation of improved and/or new engineering procedures. • Identifies technical opportunities or projects inside of Qualcomm and secures resources as necessary. Additional responsibilities might include: • Provides technical expertise and support to team members to define and make available foundry technology roadmap choices to meet product requirements • Leads team to define and develop competitive and timely foundry technology to fit product roadmap. • Leads resolution of critical technology and design-technology interaction issues to execute on timely Product ramp. Level of Responsibility: • Working independently with no supervision. • Making decisions that are significant in impact, influencing overall program or organization success, finances, and/or the ability to meet objectives; errors are not readily apparent due to the complexity of work process/product or time between decisions and results; errors typically result in significant expenditure of time, resources, and funds to correct. • Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. May require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents. • Having a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions...

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