General Summary:As a CPU Emulation Engineer, you will work as part of CPU verification team to deliver emulation-based solutions for CPU team. You will work closely with all disciplines of CPU team to help verify and validate high performance CPUs.
Role and Responsibilities- Work closely with CPU RTL, performance, verification and SW teams to deliver emulation-based solutions.
- Architect and develop test bench infrastructure in C/C++ and Systemverilog for enabling CPU emulation across different platforms.
- Develop verification methodology, ensuring scalable and portable environment across simulation and emulation.
- Debug emulation performance and area issues to efficiently use emulation resources.
- Develop environment to run verification test cases, OS boot, performance benchmarks and other vectors.
- Develop debugging methodology to enable efficient debug and root causing of CPU functional and performance issues.
- Develop and maintain emulation environment to collect metrics related to emulation environment.
- Work closely with emulation CAD team to resolve infrastructure issues and ensure productivity on emulation models.
- Execute verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring-up, regression enabling for all features under your care, debug of the test failures.
Preferred Qualifications- 5+ years of experience with emulation platforms - Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, FPGAs.
- Experience with synthesizing and optimizing designs and verification components developed in synthesizable Verilog.
- Experience with C/C++ DPI transactors and monitors.
- Experience in scripting using Perl, Python or shell scripts. Experience with packaging workloads for cloud.
- Experience with debugging RISCV CPU based designs. Knowledge on RISCV and programmers' model is a plus.
- Experience with Linux boot and firmware aspects is a plus.
- Experience with CPU architecture and micro-architecture is a plus.
Minimum Qualifications:• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
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Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
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PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits: $167,100.00 - $250,700.00
The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer - and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.
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