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, bring-up yield, 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.
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- Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
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- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Job Overview: 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 workplace 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 ARM CPU based designs. Knowledge on ARM ISA 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.

📌 CPU Emulation Sr Lead Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Qualcomm
📍 Bengaluru