[Hiring] Staff, Technical Standards – RISC-V SOC @Qualcomm

Role Description

As a senior Technical Standards contributor and participant, you will work closely with internal and external partners to improve and evolve industry technical standards while representing Qualcomm as a delegate in standardization forums. Your responsibility would include:

• Understanding semiconductor industry landscapes and domestic and international competitors' strengths and weaknesses.
• Working with internal partners to identify existing and emerging standards for Qualcomm to focus on.
• Collaborating with external partners in developing and promoting standards.
• Helping formulate, maintain, and execute Qualcomm’s strategy for semiconductor standards.
• Working with attorneys to file patents that protect the novel IP aspects of any inventions.

The key area of focus for the candidate is RISC-V SOC, including:

• RISC-V ISA, processor architecture, microarchitecture, memory architecture.
• Experience developing technical specifications within industry standards organizations and driving consensus.
• Debug and Trace, Reliability Availability Serviceability, SOC IP, bus, cache coherency, interrupt, system firmware, and kernel knowledge.
• Legacy architecture knowledge is a plus.
• Experience with processor core and system compliance certification, modeling, and verification.
• Physical design and government affairs background is a plus.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• 6+ years ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
• 3+ years of experience with standards body.
• Strong networking and influencing skills.

Requirements

• Understanding of semiconductor technologies.
• Understanding of international semiconductor landscapes and strategic incentives of major players.
• Semiconductor development experience, including architecture, design, implementation, verification, validation, manufacturing, silicon qualification, etc.
• Familiarity with Electronic Design Automation (EDA).
• Understanding of open-source licensing models and open-source development ecosystems.
• Familiarity with Qualcomm semiconductor products and technologies is a plus.
• Experience with or network of contacts in research and academic community is a plus.
• Strong documentation, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• 1+ years working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
• 2+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership.
• 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
• 3+ years of experience with semiconductor standards organizations and forums, such as RISC-V, RISE, JEDEC, UEFI, OCP, CHIPS Alliance, Accellera, Si2, SEMI, OCP, ISO, IEC, IEEE, INCITS, GSA, SIA, IMEC, SRC.
• 4+ years memory design, memory modeling, or memory test experience.

Benefits

• Global travel several times per year for standards organization forums.

Education Requirements

• Required: Master's, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• Preferred: Doctorate's, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering.

Location

• Can be remote in Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, or Japan.