Qualcomm Post-Silicon Validations Engineer 

United States, California, San Diego 

112415905

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

We are looking for self-motivated engineers who will be part of bare-metal SoC validation teams and will have the following responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, debug system/IP validation framework to be used in bare-metal and light-weight-rtos environment for SoC validation

• Understand the SoC architecture, new features and prepare test plan

• Develop/port/enhance system validation content based on system level use cases, low power use cases, find HW bugs and root cause them

• Interface with Design/Software teams for test plan and debugs

• Interface with various IP validation team and cross functional teams(Design/SW) for test plan creation and debug complex issues

• Use silicon debug hooks to measure power/performance/coverage and other KPI metrics

Mandatory Skills:

• Good knowledge and understanding of Embedded SW architecture and development in C, C++, Assembly

• C language expertise for low level programming at the hardware-software boundary, assembly language for any processor, C-assembly interworking

• Good knowledge of ARMv8/ARMv9/x86/RISC-V CPU architecture, Interrupt handling, Cache coherency, IO Coherency

• Good knowledge of SoC architecture having Multicore/Multiprocessor with SMP/heterogenous cores

• Knowledge of Operating systems/RTOS/Linux kernel internals, multithreading, scheduling policies/locking mechanism, Virtual memory/MMU/paging etc

• Understanding of memory management, weakly ordered memory model/pipelining of memory systems/memory barriers

• In-depth understanding of software build toolchains comprising of compilers, Makefiles, linker/scatter files

• Compilers/linkers: Proficient in using compilers and linkers such as GCC, CLANG, RVDS, LLVM, Experience in optimizing code and resolving linker issues to ensure efficient and error free builds

• Experience in using JTAG interfaces and tools for debugging HW

• Scripting languages such as Python, shell scripting etc.

• Software engineering best practices: Conduct thorough and constructive code reviews, static analysis tools to maintain code quality, ensure best practices and identify areas of improvements and produce consistently clean code

Desired Skills

• Exposure to SoC architecture – interconnects, power management, emulation(pre-Si) environment

• Exposure to working on emulation/pre-si environment is added advantage

• Software development for silicon enablement, silicon validation

• Board Bring-up/Bring-up of hardware-software solution on FPGA/emulation platforms and on fresh SOC designs

• Exposure to build automation: Experience with build automations tools such as Jenkins and experience in creating automated build pipelines to stream line the development process

• Exposure to Regression testing: Understanding of the regression testing methodologies and tools. Ability to design, implement and execute comprehensive regression test suites to ensure software quality and stability

• Source code management: Proficient in source code management tools such as Perforce, Git, SVN. Experience in branching merging and resolving merge conflicts

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range:

$108,000.00 - $162,000.00