CPU Physical Design Engineer
Immigration summary
Visa sponsorship
This employer sponsors this kind of work repeatedly, and is still filing this year.
1,599 recent H-1B filings · 113 similar-role filings
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This employer has recently sponsored green cards at scale.
89 recent certified PERM filings · 5 similar-role filings
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Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering
General Summary:
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm CPU Engineer, you will lead innovative Central Processing Unit (CPU) design efforts that have a critical impact on industries across the world. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, verify, and implement multi-core CPU operations for all Qualcomm Business Units.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 1+ year of work experience with high level programming (e.g., C, C++), scripting language programming (e.g., Perl, Python, etc.).
• 1+ year of work experience with industry standard tools for synthesis place and/or route and design verification.
• 1+ year of work experience with simulation, emulation, formal verification, or silicon validation.
• 1+ year of experience in creating functional models, checkers, test plans, and/or test generation.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
• Applies knowledge of computer architecture, micro-architecture, logic design, circuits, and/or physical design to assist in the development and verification of high performance and low power CPU designs.
• Identifies and solves routine problems to ensure design completeness, functionality, power, and performance.
• Collaborates with team members to assist in the defining of requirements, specifications, and trade-offs (e.g., performance, power, cost, functionalities, etc.) in order to accomplish product goals.
• Assists in the evaluation of the design process from conceptualization to productization (i.e., architecture definition, feasibility, pre-silicon design and verification, and post-silicon validation) that meet customer and industry standards.
• Writes technical documentation (e.g., feature descriptions, architectural descriptions, verification test plans, and implementation details, etc.) for CPU designs.
Level of Responsibility:
- Works under supervision.
- Decision-making affects direct area of work and/or work group.
- Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey basic, routine factual information.
• Tasks require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; some planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.
Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).
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Pay range
and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$109,400.00 - $164,200.00
The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
Sponsorship evidence
Why Openbound reached the conclusions above.
Visa sponsorship evidence
Current posting
Silent on sponsorship
Other openings
20 of 1738 recent openings at this employer state a sponsorship restriction.
Employer H-1B history
- 1,599
- recent certified H-1B filings
- 1,049
- new-hire petitions
- 113
- filings for similar roles
- 987
- so far in FY2026
Filed titles like this role: cpu engineer
More evidence details
- 113 certified H-1B filings for this same role, 1,049 new-hire petitions across the employer, and 918 new hires already this year
- 113 certified H-1B filings for this same role
- 1,599 recent certified H-1B filings across the employer
- Still filing this year — 987 filings in FY2026
- 1,049 USCIS H-1B new-employment approvals, counted separately from LCA filings
- Strong filing activity in TX
- 2,949 further USCIS approvals for extensions or transfers
- 20 other recent postings at this company state a sponsorship restriction
- The posting says nothing about sponsorship either way
Strong filing activity in TX.
Green card sponsorship evidence
Employer PERM history
- 89
- recent certified PERM filings
- 5
- filings for similar roles
- 6
- filings in this location
Filing history reflects past employer behavior; it isn't a promise for this opening.
All open roles at QualcommHow Openbound evaluates sponsorship
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What this posting states outranks history in both directions, and an employer's published policy outranks past filings. Filing history reflects past behavior; it is not a promise of sponsorship for this opening, and none of this is legal advice.