Qualcomm Sr Lead Engineer - IP validation Firmware dev 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

960331110

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 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.

IP validation and Firmware development

• Understand the IP architecture, work with IP Design/Verification teams to understand the validation requirements, develop/port/enhance the validation software content and bring up.

• Develop good quality Firmware, understand complex SW scenarios and debug the Firmware issues.

• Interface with Design/Software and other teams for the test plan and debugs.

• Validate the IP Functionality, expose weakness, find bugs and root cause them

• Use silicon debug hooks to measure power/performance/coverage and other KPI metrics

• Work with minimal Supervision. Mentor/guide junior co-workers.

• Good verbal and written communication skills

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 6+ years Hardware Engineering experience or related work experience.

• Excellent understanding of Embedded systems, Soc Architecture, Processor Architecture and Memory interfacing.

• Excellent C expertise and hands-on experience on Firmware development/debug

• Must have Experience in IP Validation

• Experience in DDR and other High speed protocols is added advantage.

• Exposure to working on emulation/pre-si environment.

• Exposure to instruments like oscilloscope, Logic analyzer or any other instruments.

• Using JTAG based debuggers, compilers/linkers

• Should have good exposure to software development life cycle-Exposure to SoC architecture paradigms interconnects, power management,

• Knowledge of JTAG based debuggers/compilers/linkers.

• Software development for silicon enablement, silicon validation

• Exposure to scripting language preferably python

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.