Qualcomm Sr Staff Engineer - CPU Subsystem Firmware 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

571970819

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

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 6+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

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

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

As CPU Subsystem Firmware Engineer you will develop low level firmware for Pre-silicon verification of ARM architecture based CPU subsystem. You will exercise CPU subsystem using structured firmware in Design verification environment, debug issues arising out of the verification efforts with Design Engineers and Architects . You will support Emulation bringup and post silicon bringup. You will write Initialization routines for the subsystem components , develop validation tests to ensure subsystem functionality is as expected.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Deeply understand microarchitecture of active and idle power management .

• Work with design team to understand design intent and bring up verification suite.

• Modify Structured firmware for simulation use and align with emulation and post silicon teams for re-use of it in those environments.

Preferred qualifications

• Expertise in the pre-silicon verification of ARM based CPUSS verification

• Knowledge of FPGA and emulation platforms

• Experience in verification of clock, reset , power management units and power gating controllers.

• Low power verification experience

• Strong fundamentals in digital ASIC verification

• Experience in assembly, C, C+ Minimum Qualifications:

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

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

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

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.