physical-design jobs in San Diego

Senior Technical Program Manager leading ASIC/SOC development programs from architecture through post-silicon validation. Manages cross-functional engineering teams across pre-silicon phases (architecture, RTL design, verification, FPGA prototyping, physical design, tapeout) and post-silicon phases (silicon bring-up, functional validation, NPI).…See more Drives project execution, technical trade-offs, and coordination with internal teams, foundries, and external partners to meet power, performance, schedule, cost, and quality requirements. Requires 7+ years managing ASIC teams, 5+ years technical program management, and 3+ years software development experience.

Senior ASIC design engineer role focused on next-generation high-speed HBM, LPDDR, and DDR memory subsystem architecture and RTL implementation for Qualcomm products. Responsibilities include developing memory controller and NoC-based subsystem specifications, RTL coding, micro-architecture design, synthesis, timing closure, physical design support, and gate-level simulation.…See more The role requires 5+ years of ASIC/RTL design experience, 3+ years of hardware architecture experience, and expertise in high-speed digital design (1GHz+) interfacing with CPU, GPU, DSP, and multimedia processors.

Design and optimize Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures for high-performance Qualcomm SoCs with focus on physical implementation and PPA (power, performance, area) goals. Responsibilities include floorplan-driven architecture design, physical-aware synthesis strategies, clock tree planning, power analysis, timing closure, and custom placement/routing techniques.…See more Requires deep expertise in ASIC physical design, NoC protocols (AMBA, cache coherency), and scripting in Python, Perl, TCL, and C to analyze and optimize latency, area, performance, and power metrics.

Staff Engineer role focused on CPU design, RTL development, and physical design for next-generation high-performance, low-power SoCs. Responsibilities span microarchitecture definition, Verilog/SystemVerilog RTL coding, synthesis, physical implementation (floorplanning, placement, routing, timing closure), and PPA optimization.…See more Will collaborate across architecture, verification, DFT, and post-silicon teams, and develop automation scripts in Python, Tcl, Perl, or Shell. Requires 4–10 years in ASIC/SoC, CPU, RTL, or physical design, strong digital design fundamentals, and hands-on experience with CPU microarchitecture and design closure flows.