Qualcomm GPU Validation Emulation Engineer Principal 

United States, California, San Diego 

967776628

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > GPU ASICS Engineering

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 7+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Job Description:

• Synthesize the Verilog RTL and create models and compile them to emulators like Veloce/Palladium/Zebu and/or FPGA platforms

• Develop all aspects of hardware emulator implementation, with emphasis on design partitioning, synthesis, place and route, timing analysis & run time performance.

• Drive debug failures on emulator using latest technologies. Work with designers and SW driver team for testplan and debug.

• Work with tool vendors and push the methodology to improve the area/performance of the synthesized FPGA RTL.

• Work on third-party IP integration and system-level debugging.

• System level RTL simulation & design verification.

• Support chip bring up and post silicon debug.

• Debug functional and timing models.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Science, Engineering, or closely related field

• 10+ years of hands on experience in emulation/simulation acceleration/FPGA.

• 10+ years in Designvalidation/Post-Silicon debug.

• 10+ years of hands on experience in creating high performance & area efficient emulation environments from RTL.

• 10+ years of hands on emulator platforms, platform bringup, digital design, verification, debugging, and waveform viewers

• 5+ Hardware emulators, such as Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce, or FPGA systems based on Xilinx or Altera FPGAs

• 5+ Emulation methodologies, including in-circuit emulation, hybrid systems, or simulation acceleration

Desirable Skills:

• MS degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent; 10 years of practical experience

• Design Verification knowledge – UVM/System Verilog preferred

• Knowledge of GPU/CPU/DDR/Bus preferred

• Verilog and System Verilog experience.

• Debugging system-level software, Debug RTL

• Programming skills in C and C++ Scripting in Python, Tcl, or Perl

• Knowledge of Vendor Emulation tools/Xilinx tools/Synthesis tools

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.

Pay range:

$216,000.00 - $324,000.00