Job Summary

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm ASIC Engineer, you will define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for a variety of high performance, high quality, low power world class products.

Qualcomm

Engineers collaborate with cross-functional groups to determine product execution path.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
- Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
- PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Responsibilities

- Develop, execute and maintain comprehensive validation plans for Ethernet IP and SoC-level features across pre-silicon, emulation and post-silicon environments.




- Collaborate closely with IP architecture, design and systems teams to understand validation requirements and translate them into robust test content.
- Lead bring-up, debug and root-cause analysis for complex cross-functional issues spanning hardware, drivers and platform integration.
- Ensure validation coverage is sufficient to provide high confidence in functional correctness, performance, power behavior, and production readiness.

Required Skills and Experience

- Solid hands-on experience with any of these IPs like Ethernet controllers, NIC architectures, PCIe.
- Proficiency in bare-metal and Linux driver development with strong C/C++ programming and debugging skills.
- Solid understanding of embedded systems, SoC architecture, peripheral subsystems and hardware/software interaction.
- Experience validating complex SoC features across functional, performance, power and system-level scenarios.
- Exposure to AI server based interconnects like ESUN/UEC, UALink protocols are preferred.
- Hands-on experience with lab and debug tools such as Lauterbach TRACE32, oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers and traffic-generation equipment.

📌 Ethernet Validation Engineer - Staff/ Sr. Lead / Senior Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Qualcomm
📍 Bengaluru