RTL Design Manager - Director

Qualcomm · Hyderabad

  • Experience5–20 yrs
  • SalaryNot disclosed
  • Work modeonsite
  • Levelexecutive
  • Posted18 Sept 2026

About Qualcomm

Qualcomm is hiring in Hyderabad in semiconductors electronics. This role looks for around 5+ years of experience.

Skills

  • VLSI design verification
  • architecture design
  • power analysis
  • foundry technology
  • technical leadership
  • project management

The role

An engineering manager at a semiconductor product company leads VLSI design verification, resolves complex architecture issues, and directs power analysis and foundry technology planning. The role also drives cross-functional product execution and improved engineering procedures.

Full job description

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.