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Qualcomm

CPU Integration & 3DIC CAD Engineer

Qualcomm Santa Clara, California, United States of America, United States 20 days ago
Physical Design & EDA

$175,600 - $263,400 USD yearly

Originally posted 15 September 2026 by the employer — open 5 days.

Join the Nuvia/CPU team.

About the role

What you'll do

  • Enable 3DIC/multi die in existing or new flows, including TSVs during floor planning.
  • Support Static Timing and Extraction across multiple dies.
  • Support power integrity flows across multiple chiplets.
  • Architect, maintain, and support these flows, and resolve project-specific issues.
  • Work with EDA vendors to define roadmap and resolve tool issues.

What you'll need

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of relevant work experience, OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of relevant work experience, OR PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of relevant work experience.
  • Total of 8 years of educational industry experience.

Nice to have

  • Ten years of hands-on experience in development of high-performance chips in a design or CAD role.
  • Experience with Innovus, Primetime, Star-RC or equivalents.
  • Experience with advanced technology nodes (5nm or lower).
  • High level of programming proficiency (Python and Tcl) and data structures.

Skills: 3DIC/multi die, EDA vendors, Innovus, Primetime, Star-RC, CAD role

Market context

This role has been open 4 days — well below the 86-day median for EDA/CAD Engineering roles.

EDA/CAD Engineering · EDA Tools

Open roles in category
668
Median days open
86 d
Median salary
$195k
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
How Qualcomm compares in EDA/CAD Engineering hiring
Metric Qualcomm All employers we track in this specialty (668 roles · 74 employers)
Open roles in this specialty 34 668
Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family 148 1373 · 107 employers
Median days open 72 d 86 d (−14 d vs this employer)
Median salary (USD postings) — $195k

Skills observed across this category: 3DIC/multi die, EDA vendors, Innovus, Primetime, Star-RC, CAD role

Who's hiring in this category

  • Cadence Design Systems · 168 open roles · median 148 d
  • Synopsys · 55 open roles · median 59 d
  • NVIDIA · 46 open roles · median 64 d
  • Micron Technology · 35 open roles · median 121 d
  • Qualcomm (this employer) · 34 open roles · median 72 d
  • Intel Corporation · 29 open roles · median 25 d

How we counted: 668 open EDA/CAD Engineering (EDA Tools) roles from 74 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 20 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Physical Implementation family row. Figures refresh nightly.

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Santa Clara, California, United States of America, United States
On-site
$175,600 - $263,400 USD yearly
20 days ago

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