Qualcomm Pre & Post Silicon System Validation - Staff Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

986010493

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

• 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead requirements capture and programme reviews.

• Lead validation planning, identifying hardware/software test resources and implementation strategy.

• Lead project level engineering resource planning for a small team.

• Develop complex test systems and automation through innovative test solutions for improved efficiency

• Automation with any lab equipment (power supplies, spectrum analysers, signal generators, etc.)

• Deliver high quality automation and hardware in line with the department’s processes.

• Lead peer reviews for test scripts, data analysis scripts and hardware.

• Participate and lead pre-silicon emulation-based design verification.

• Participate and lead post silicon bring up, validation, compliance testing and debug.

• Proactively lead collaborations with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of tasks.

• Maintenance of scripts and hardware.

• Debug of complex hardware and software issues, including debug support.

• Test execution and data manipulation to confirm validity of results using data analysis and statistics.

• Lead the collation, summarising, and presenting of data for technical and program level reviews.

• Lead and foster creation of relevant documentation following the department’s processes.

• Dedicate time to learning and development (new scripting languages, test methodology, etc.)

Required Skills

• Manages project-related activities (e.g., meetings, documentation, deliverables) between their team and other teams working on the same or similar products, operating across locations and time zones.

• Proven track record of verification, taking several chips from specification to tape out

• Proven expertise with UVM and/or System Verilog based verification

• Excellent understanding of ASIC verification methodologies and proven experience of verification

• Experience working with source control tools, bug management tools and release management tools such as Jenkins, Git, and Jira.

• Serves as a mentor to Engineers and Senior Engineers and guides them about complex features, systems, testing strategies, and automation.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. May require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.

• Proficient level of C, System Verilog, Python, C#, R language

• Good skills in RTL verification, UVM/OVM, SV assertions.

• Good knowledge of simulation flow

• Competent with lab test equipment; power supplies, high performance oscilloscopes, audio analysers, signal generators, spectrum analysers.

• Ability to draw inferences and highlight key points from a data set

• Demonstrate analytical problem-solving skills

Preferred Skills

• Experience in leadership roles

• Experience with SoC interfaces, embedded processors, networking protocols, security protocols and video formats will be a big plus.

• Competencies to produce innovative test solutions, including complex automation with Python and R Language.

• Knowledge of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and NFC standards

• Detailed knowledge of Analog and Digital Audio, Power Management Units (PMU), Battery Management, Auxiliary functions, Peripherals, Power Optimisation techniques, Signal processing.

Knowledge of databases

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.