Qualcomm RF/Analog Design/Functional Modeling Verification Engineer 

Canada, Ontario, Markham 

126835419

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

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.

Responsibilities include:

• Based on analog circuit design, developing, and debugging behavioral models for event driven simulation, as well as models for mixed signal simulation.

• Developing and maintaining self-checking test benches.

• Define and develop test coverages and test sequences for design verification

• Maintaining scripts that streamline release of netlists and generation of programming instructions.

• Diagnosing failed tests.

• Verifying chip level functionality, tracking result, and logging bugs.

• Participate in methodology development.

Skills/Experience:

• At least 3 years of experience in digital design or functional verification, preferably of RF or mixed signal chips.

• Solid understanding of RF-analog circuit design

• Solid understanding of digital logic design

• Solid knowledge of behavioral modeling

• Working knowledge of Cadence’s AMS designers/XCelium (setup, netlisting, error messages…).

• Proficient at System Verilog.

• Proficient at scripting, preferably with Python, Perl, C-Shell and Cadence SKILL

• Familiarity with serial bus interfaces, register controllers, and state machines.

• Familiarity with RF transceiver architectures, phase lock loops (PLLs), analog-to-digital converters, and digital-to-analog converters (ADCs and DACs) would be extremely helpful.

• Familiarity with verification methodologies like UVM are a plus.

Education:

• A master’s degree, or higher, in EE and/or computer science, or equivalent experience is preferred

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.