Joseph Laux is a Senior Physical Design Engineer with six years of experience designing high-performance CPU and semiconductor layouts, currently leading physical design at Qualcomm after advancing through roles at Microsoft. A University of Virginia computer engineering graduate, he blends hands-on RTL-to-GDSII flow expertise with research roots in processing-in-memory for low-power embedded systems, work that was presented at SRC TECHCON 2019. He has practical systems experience from an electronic warfare internship where he built C++/MATLAB GUIs and held a DoD Secret clearance, reflecting strength in cross-disciplinary engineering and secure environments. Based in Raleigh, he brings a track record of shipping silicon-focused solutions and a research-informed mindset that drives optimization in constrained, power-sensitive designs.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of Virginia
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Joseph Laux - Physical Design Engineer at Microsoft