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Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company based in San Diego, CA.
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As a CPU Server Physical Design Clock Engineer within the CPU Engineering group, you will collaborate with microarchitecture, RTL design, CAD, and block-level physical design teams to develop best-in-class clocking solutions for next-generation CPUs. Your daily responsibilities include driving overall clock generation and distribution methodologies, implementing techniques to optimize skew and power, and performing jitter analysis and measurements to provide critical feedback to engineers. You will work on the construction of low skew and low power clock systems using H-tree, mesh, spines, and CTS implementations. The role requires expertise in device physics, RC delay, electrical aspects, and SPICE simulation for circuit design and verification. Key technical competencies include standard cell optimizations, PLL specifications, and experience with deep submicron process technology nodes to solve complex timing and power challenges in high-performance processor designs.