Qualcomm Sr lead Engineer Design Verification DSP/NPU 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

313548363

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

Job Summary:

• Position for 5-8 years of experience in design verification of complex Qualcomm propriety DSP/NPU IP

• DSP team is responsible for delivering high-performance DSP/NPU cores which are at the heart of Qualcomm's multi-tier SoC roadmap targeted for mobile space, AI, Automotive and more.

• Qualcomm is one of the largest fabless semiconductor design companies in the world, generating over $35 Billion in annual revenues from chipsets and royalties from intellectual property.

Job Responsibilities:

• Drive design verification of DSP IP by working with a global DSP design team involving architecture, implementation, power, post silicon and back-end teams.

• Implement and improve System Verilog/UVM Testbench Architecture.

• Develop and deploy new verification methodologies, automation to continuously improve quality and efficiency.

• Develop design corresponding test plans, architect and develop verification environments, and meet coverage goals.

• Hands-on simulations and ability to debug not only IP level, but Subsystem and SoC level fails and bugs.

• Complete all required verification activities at IP level and ensure high quality commercial success of our products.

• Assertions, simulation, formal verification (static property checking), HW-SW co-verification, constraint/HVL-based verification, simulation acceleration, emulation are all tools you will use on a daily basis.

• Responsible gate level simulation bring-up, gate level verification with timing simulations.

• Responsible for power aware RTL verification and gate level simulation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Skillset/Experience:

• 5-8 years experience in processor/ASIC design verification

• Solid background and understanding of Digital Design, Processor Architecture , Processor Verification and Power aware verification.

• Expertise in System Verilog Testbench Architecture and implementation.

• Experience in writing C based and assembly level testcases is preferred.

• Exposure to power aware implementation and verification using UPF is a plus.

• Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal and assertions is a plus.

• Gate-Level Simulation and Debug — 0-delay, timing annotated and power aware.

• Experience in System Verilog/UVM, and with simulators from Synopsys/Mentor/Cadence .

• Scripting/Automation Skills — Perl, Python, Shell, Make file TCI .

• Solid analytical and debugging skills, strong knowledge of digital design and good understanding of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts.

• Experience in Hardware verification languages (HVL) such as SystemVerilog testbench (OVM/UVM) and SystemC and Hardware description languages (HDL) such as Verilog, SystemVerilog is preferred.

• Experience in verification of Processor subsystems is preferred.

• Experience in creating validation suite and building automation.

• Should have excellent inter-personal and communication skills.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.OR

• PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

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