SoC Validation Engineer

Company: Qualcomm
Location: San Diego
Posted on: March 15, 2025

Job Description:

Company:Qualcomm India Private LimitedJob Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware EngineeringGeneral 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 Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.As a "SoC Validation Engineer" you would be part of the Automotive SoC Post Silicon Validation Team, within the Automotive SoC team.The charter for SoC Validation Bringup team would be to prepare for and support bring up of every SoC using the Custom CPUs - from first Silicon through to productization.Roles and Responsibilities:
• Work with different Validation teams to debug and triage SoC issues.
• Work with SOC bring up teams, software teams to plan debug and triage of SoC.
• Triage and debug failures on Silicon.
• Develop test contents and testing strategies to assist debug of SoC.
• Work with CPU verification teams to reproduce silicon fails on emulators and FPGAs.
• Work with design team to suggest, architect new debug features to improve future debugs.Minimum Requirements:
• BA/BS degree in CS/EE with 5+ years' experience.
• 3+ Experience in Silicon Validation and bring up.
• Implementation of assembly, C/C++ language embedded firmware.
• Experience with software tool chain including assemblers, C compilers, Makefiles, and source code control tools.Preferred Requirements:
• Strong understanding of micro-processor architecture.
• Strong understanding of power management, physical design concepts.
• Experience in Silicon bring up and validation of CPU features.
• Experience in debug of functional, power, performance and/or physical design issues in silicon.
• Experience in Test development for validation of CPU features on Silicon.
• Experience in development of test vectors for tester bring up.Applicants: 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 or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found . Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able to participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities.
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