SoC Sr Validation Engineer

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world-class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR

• PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Summary:

Qualcomm's SoC Validation Team (SVE - System Validation & Emulation) 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 looking for self-motivated engineers who will be part of the bare-metal SoC validation team and will have the following responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, debug system/IP validation framework to be used in bare-metal and light-weight-RTOS environment for SoC validation.
• Understand the SoC architecture, new features and prepare test plan.
• Develop/port/enhance system validation content based on system level use cases, low power use cases, find HW bugs and root cause them.
• Interface with Design/Software teams for test plan and debugs.
• Interface with various IP validation team and cross-functional teams (Design/SW) for test plan creation and debug complex issues.
• Use silicon debug hooks to measure power/performance/coverage and other KPI metrics.

Minimum Qualification:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering/Computer Science or related field.
• 2-5 years of working experience (Candidates with less experience with good academics from premier institutes can also be considered).

Mandatory Skills:

• Good knowledge and understanding of Embedded SW architecture and development in C, C++, Assembly.
• C language expertise for low level programming, assembly language for any processor, C-assembly interworking.
• Good knowledge of ARMv8/ARMv9/x86/PowerPC CPU architecture, Interrupt handling, Cache coherency, IO Coherency.
• Good knowledge of SoC architecture having Multicore/Multiprocessor with SMP/heterogeneous cores.
• Knowledge of Operating systems/RTOS/Linux kernel internals, multithreading, scheduling policies/locking mechanism, Virtual memory/MMU/paging etc.
• Understanding of memory management, weakly ordered memory model/pipelining of memory systems/memory barriers.
• In-depth understanding of software build toolchains comprising of compilers, Makefiles, linker/scatter files.
• Experience in using JTAG interfaces and tools for debugging HW.
• Scripting languages such as Python, shell scripting etc.

Desired Skills:

• Exposure to SoC architecture paradigms – interconnects, power management, emulation (pre-Si) environment.
• Exposure to working on emulation/pre-si environment is added advantage.
• Experience working with boot code for ARM processors.
• Software development for silicon enablement, silicon validation.
• Board Bring-up/Bring-up of hardware-software solution on FPGA/emulation platforms and on fresh SOC designs.
• Exposure to build automation: Experience with build automation tools such as Jenkins and experience in creating automated build pipelines to streamline the development process.
• Exposure to Regression testing: Understanding of the regression testing methodologies and tools. Ability to design, implement and execute comprehensive regression test suites to ensure software quality and stability.
• Source code management: Proficient in source code management tools such as Perforce, Git, SVN. Experience in branching merging and resolving merge conflicts.

Code Reviews: Ability to conduct thorough and constructive code reviews to maintain code quality, ensure best practices and identify areas of improvement.

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