Company

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

Job 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 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Role overview As a CPU Core Validation Engineer(Staff/Sr. Staff) you would be part of CPU Validation team in CPU org working on validation of CPU core pipeline arch and micro arch features.

Roles and Responsibilities

- Develop detailed test plan considering the IP arch and uarch features.




- Work with CPU design and verification teams to develop CPU bring up and functional validation test plans for the IP owned.
- Develop validation methodology and test contents to exercise on emulators during pre-Si phase and on Silicon.
- Work with SOC bring up teams, software teams to plan CPU core features bringup and end to end validation.
- Triage and debug failures on Silicon.
- Develop test contents and testing strategies to assist validation of CPU on silicon.
- Work with CPU verification teams to reproduce silicon fails on emulators and FPGAs.
- Work with design team to suggest, architect current debug features to improve future CPU bringups.

Minimum Requirements

- BA/BS degree in CS/EE with 7 to 16 years experience.
- 7+ Experience in Silicon Validation and bring up.
- Implementation of assembly, C/C++ language embedded firmware
- Experience with software tool chain including assemblers, C compilers, Makefiles, and source code control tools.

Preferred Requirements

- Good understanding of micro-processor architecture, in domains such as: Cache Coherence, Memory ordering and Consistency, Prefetching, Branch Prediction, Renaming, Speculative execution, and Address Translation/Memory Management.
- Knowledge of Random Instruction Sequencing (RIS) and testing a given design, at the Block/Unit-level and Subsystem/Chip-level for proving correctness.
- Experience in writing Test plans and Assembly code.
- Ability to develop and work independently on a block/unit of the design.

📌 CPU Core Validation Engineer (Staff/Senior Staff) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Qualcomm
📍 Bengaluru