Qualcomm

SoC Debug Engineer

Qualcomm$140K — $210K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-8 years of experience in pre-silicon and post-silicon validation and bring-up of embedded platforms
  • Strong RTL inspection skills and understanding of basic RTL concepts
  • Experience with Gen AI for automating debugging processes
  • Ability to support and implement solutions for faster platform-level debugging
  • Expertise in creating debug strategies for effective triage of component failures
  • Hands-on experience debugging hardware and low-level software issues
  • Familiarity with debug tools such as JTAG and lab equipment like logic analyzers and oscilloscopes

Responsibilities

  • Bring up and debug failures at the embedded platform level during both pre-Si and post-Si phases
  • Support and develop quicker debugging solutions to isolate failing components
  • Create debug strategies for partners to efficiently triage and isolate issues
  • Implement Gen AI automation in the debug process to streamline workflows
  • Perform analysis and troubleshoot issues related to power, voltage, and timing (PVT)

Benefits

  • Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
  • Opportunity for annual RSU grants
  • Comprehensive benefits package designed for employee well-being
  • Support for work-life balance activities
  • Opportunities for professional development and career growth
Full Job Description
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm's Silicon Validation team is part of the central SoC digital hardware organization responsible for the overall quality of the SoC silicon. The validation team works closely with architects, designers, verification engineers, software engineers, and customers. We are currently seeking a candidate for the position of SoC Debug Engineer

In this role, the candidate will support three critical roles:

Key Responsibilities:

In this role, the candidate will support three critical roles:

* Bring up, debug, analyze failures at the embedded platform level in both pre-Si and post-Si phase

* Support, develop, and implement solutions for faster debug at the platform level including isolating failing components of a system

* Creating debug strategies and plans for partners to more rapidly triage failures to isolate specific components including PVT and marginality issues.

* Gen AI automation and enablement for automating the Debug flow

Minimum Qualifications:

* 5 to 8 years of experience with pre-si and post-silicon enabling, bring-up, analyze failures at the embedded platform level

* RTL inspection and understanding of basic RTL

* Gen AI knowledge and experience for automating the Debug flow

* Support, develop, and implement solutions for faster debug at the platform level including isolating failing components of a system

* Creating debug strategies and plans for partners to more rapidly triage failures to isolate specific components including PVT and marginality issues

* Debugging low level software and hardware issues

* Debug tools including JTAG

* Using Lab Equipment (Logic Analyzer, Scope, Signal Generator, etc.)

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor's, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering Preferred:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering

Basic understanding of power and performance

Some programming and scripting languages (C, Assembly, Perl, Python, etc.)

Knowledge of TCU, PVT, Fmax, Vmin test methodology and hands-on experience

CPU and SoC architectures

Gen AI experience

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$140,000.00 - $210,000.00

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.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. Founded in 2000, Qualcomm Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund with over 150 active portfolio companies and more than 20 exits over a billion dollars, including 99 Taxis, Cruise Automation, Fitbit, Invensense, NQ Mobile, Waze, and more. As a global investor, Qualcomm Ventures helps connect entrepreneurs to the resources, relationships, and deep industry expertise they need to succeed in the mobile technology ecosystem.

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