General Summary:Qualcomm's System Validation & Emulation (SVE) team is part of the central SoC validation organization responsible for ensuring
end-to-end silicon quality across pre- and post-silicon phases.
This role focuses on
content quality and system-level validation enablement, offering deep exposure to Qualcomm SoCs through
bare-metal validation content, scalable automation frameworks, and complex system debugs. Engineers in this role work across HW and SW boundaries to
develop, validate, and scale system-level test content, ensuring high-quality silicon validation across a wide range of SoC domains.
Excellent Opportunity to work on
cutting-edge SoCs across multiple product segments, including:
- Premium mobile and flagship platforms
- Data center
- AI Accelerator platform
Role SummaryWe are seeking a highly experienced system validation lead to drive validation strategy, test planning, content development, and execution for next-generation AI accelerator platform This role owns end-to-end system-level validation content across emulation and silicon phases while partnering with Architecture, Design, DV, Software, Performance, Power, and Product teams to ensure comprehensive coverage and successful product execution.
The ideal candidate combines strong SoC architecture knowledge, validation expertise, technical leadership, and program management skills to lead geographically distributed engineering teams and deliver high-quality validation solutions at scale.
Key Responsibilities:- Define, develop, and optimize validation tests for multi-processor systems with a focus on system level concurrency.
- Develop and maintain bare-metal software, including low-level hardware interfaces, register and interrupt programming, and clock and power management.
- Collaborate with hardware and software teams to define and validate system level software use cases.
- Debug and troubleshoot System-On-Chip with limited visibility, using development boards and lab equipment.
- Implement and optimize algorithms for performance, power efficiency, and memory footprint.
- Support pre-silicon validation efforts, working with simulation, emulation, and FPGAs.
- Conduct post-silicon bring-up, validation, system level use cases, and system integration.
Minimum Requirements:- BS or MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in silicon validation, or platform bring-up.
- Strong understanding of operating systems concepts, caching, virtual memory, and embedded software fundamentals.
- Experience with bare-metal software development and low-level hardware interfaces.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
- Experience programming in C, Assembly language.
- Some exposure to scripting language (Python, Linux shell, etc.).
Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with developing and applying machine learning models for system validation.
Familiarity in reading and understand the RTL code (e.g. Verilog, VHDL) and use the knowledge in the context of 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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