Qualcomm System Hardware Validation Engineer - Cork 

Ireland, Cork 

178877151

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

About The Role

You will focus development in the areas of Driver/Firmware Development and Validation, Debug and Resolution of Issues and Software Use-Case Implementation. The successful candidate will be expected to work closely with system architects, software engineers, hardware designers and verification engineers.

Role & Responsibilities

In this role responsibilities include, although not limited to:

• Delivery of low-level hardware drivers for Qualcomm Snapdragon Subsystems

• Manage validation and testing of the driver/hardware

• Migrate drivers to new platforms as required

• Drive innovation in software use cases

• On-going code re-factoring

• Test plan development and execution

Candidate will have a minimum of 3-5 years of experience. Candidates are expected to have:

• Experience in Low Level software development in C, C++, and Assembly.

• Excellent knowledge of ARM and RISC V processors

• Experience in automation and test/integration methodologies.

• Experience developing validation methodologies and infrastructure solutions.

• Experience with SCM tools (GIT, Perforce)

• Experience with defect tracking tools (JIRA)

• Good communication skills

• Strong debug skills

Preferred Skills

• Developing and optimizing test framework and tools to create a controlled validation environment to support large scale validation.

• Designing and defining new validation strategy as well as detailed test plans.

• Lead debug efforts for issues found during Pre-silicon and Post-silicon.

• Define, design, and execute platform Pre-Silicon and Post-Silicon validation plans for current and future products.

• Provide mentorship and technical direction to a distributed team of system validation engineers for program execution.

Educational Requirements

• Required: Bachelors in Engineering (Masters preferred)

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering/Science or related field

Where you will be working

A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

What's on Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus

• Maternity/Paternity Leave

• Employee stock purchase scheme

• Matching pension scheme

• Education Assistance

• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)

• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance

• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being

• Bicycle purchase scheme

• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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.