Qualcomm GPU Design Verification Lead 

United States, Texas, Austin 

37132567

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > GPU ASICS Engineering

Architects, designs, implements, verifies, and optimizes performance and power of GPU cores. Responsible for verification of Graphics IP , and performing pre- and post-silicon verification to verify correctness and ensure performance and power goals are met.

The responsibilities of this role include:

• Owning and executing on key independent tasks towards program requirements

• Using verbal and written communication skills to convey basic, routine factual information about day-to-day activities to others who are fully knowledgeable in the subject area.

• Working within prescribed timeline requirements and resource constraints

• Applying independent creative thought to troubleshoot technical problems or deal with novel circumstances.

• Research through available resources and engagement with various inter-disciplinary teams

• Using deductive problem solving to solve moderately complex problems; most problems have defined processes of diagnosis/detection; some limited data analysis may be required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years relevant GPU experience (either external or internal).

• 10+ year of academic and/or work experience in verification role

• 12+ years Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• 10+ years Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience

• Good communication and interpersonal skills

• Owned/Led block level verification activities for CPU/GPU project

• Verification skills: Test planning, Scripting, Simulation, problem solving and debug.

• System Verilog, UVM, Verilog or VHDL, C/C++ skills required.

• Constrained random, Functional Coverage development, design debug experience required.

• Deep exposure to CPU or GPU development (at least 5 years)

• Experience with solid technical leadership skills to provide impactful guidance to a team

• Experience in GPU block/module based verification

• Testbench Architecture and Implementation

• Strong SV/UVM knowledge

• GPU Shader Subsystem exposure

• Various types of reference model development and deployment

• Scripting and automation skills (Python, Make, Airflow etc)

• Formal verification - FPV and DPV experience is a plus

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Applies Graphics knowledge and experience to architect, design, implement, and verify the structure and performance of GPU hardware, drivers, features, applications, and tools.

• Creates and maintains verification testbenches and environments in Systemverilog/UVM

• Guide more junior engineers in testbench development, SV/UVM coding, and overall verification process

• Create and leverage advanced testing frameworks to generate and recreate real-world system integration conditions

• Collaborates with Architecture, Software , Firmware, Design , Modeling, Emulation and Post-silicon validation teams to define and develop test methodology and content

• Participate in GPU architecture, micro-architecture reviews

• Collect, organize and execute various forms of system level test content including directed testcases, gaming benchmarks, standards compliance testsuites, and system level scenarios

• Build automation for continue integration and testing based on latest GPU IP

• Help collect and analyze test results using straightforward statistics and data predictions to track benchmarks and identify issues

• Works with team members to understand and align on narrow scope of feature development and meet targets.

• Write technical documentation and feature descriptions for straightforward projects under the direction of a supervisor.

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:

$182,500.00 - $273,500.00