Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering
General Summary:Roles and Responsibilities- Develop AI, inference, and data-intensive bare-metal workloads to stress memory and compute subsystems.
- Root-cause complex hardware and software issues spanning SoC architecture, firmware, drivers, interconnects, memory systems, clocks, power domains, and low-power features.
- Enable silicon bring-up, qualification, and productization through deep technical analysis and cross-functional collaboration.
- Partner closely with architecture, design, firmware, software, emulation, FPGA, and silicon teams to solve challenging system-level problems.
Required Qualifications- BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 3+ years of experience in memory validation, silicon validation, or platform bring-up.
- Strong debugging and analytical problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in C/C++, Python, scripting, and low-level software development.
- Solid understanding of SoC architecture, embedded systems, operating systems, memory hierarchy, caches, coherency & concurrency.
- Experience with silicon bring-up, validation, and root-cause analysis.
- Familiarity with JTAG, kernel debuggers, lab instrumentation, and validation tools.
- Experience working across the hardware/software boundary in highly complex systems.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience in one or more of:
- Near-Memory Compute (NMC)
- Processing-in-Memory (PIM)
- High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
- LPDDR/DDR memory systems
- Memory controllers
- AI accelerators
- Knowledge on AI GEMM and GEMV operations, DMA operations, multi-threading
- AI/ML-assisted validation and debug methodologies
- Embedded firmware, device drivers, and bare-metal software
- Emulation, and post-silicon validation
Minimum Qualifications:• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits: $145,600.00 - $218,400.00
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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