Qualcomm Sr Staff Engineer - CPU Design Verification 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

470152870

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

Job Description

Role and Responsibilities

• Work with CPU and SOC architects to understand concept and high level system requirements

• Develop detailed test and coverage plans based on the architecture and micro-architecture

• Develop verification methodology, ensuring scalable and portable environment

• Develop verification environment, including all the respective components such as stimulus, checkers, assertions, trackers, coverage

• Develop verification plans and test benches for your area

• Execute verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring-up, regression enabling for all features under your care, debug of the test failures

• Track and report DV progress using a variety of metrics, including bugs and coverage

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge in processor verification function and architecture, in areas such as cache coherence, memory ordering and consistency, prefetching, branch prediction, renaming, speculative execution, and memory translation

• Knowledge in Random Instruction Sequencing (RIS) and testing associated as block/unit and chip level for proving correctness

• Have lead a small team of verification engineers doing CPU verification

• Advanced techniques such as formal, assertions, and silicon bringup a plus

• In-depth knowledge of processor function, architecture, and micro-architecture

• Experience in writing test plans, portable benches, transactors, and assembly

• Experience with many different verification methodologies and tools such as simulators, coverage collection, gate level simulation, waveform viewers, or even mixed signal verification

• Able to develop and work independently on a block/unit of the design

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.