4 days ago
Cupertino, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$167k - $251k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement RISC-V generation objects, micro-architectural scenarios, and composable data/control-flow idioms.
- Add instruction forms and bit-accurate encodings to the Python companion assembler and verify them against the RISC-V ISA specification.
- Develop and tune knob-driven generation themes to improve RTL coverage.
- Implement and work with exception and interrupt handlers, page-table builders, PMP configuration, and IMSIC programming sequences.
- Collaborate with ISS and RTL verification engineers to triage failures, create targeted regressions, and tune register allocation, address-space management, and data-filler constraints.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 4+ years of relevant experience; alternatively, a master’s degree and 3+ years or a PhD and 2+ years.
- 2–5 years of experience in CPU design verification, ISS development, or hardware-software co-design.
- Strong Python 3 skills, including generator-based coroutines and object-oriented design patterns.
- Working knowledge of RISC-V instruction encodings, CSR semantics, privilege levels, and the memory model, or comparable x86 or ARM knowledge.
- Familiarity with virtual memory, PMP, and trap/interrupt handling.
- Exposure to random test generation or ISS/RTL co-simulation is a plus.
- Compiler development experience, hypervisor or AIA/IMSIC knowledge, and familiarity with constraint-propagation libraries are nice to have.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- US benefits information is available through the company benefits link.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a public semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, founded in 1985, that designs and sells wireless chipsets and platforms for mobile devices, automotive, IoT, and networking, notably the Snapdragon application processors and 5G modems. It also licenses a large portfolio of cellular patents to device makers, generating revenue alongside chip sales; its technology underpins many Android smartphones and emerging automotive and edge-compute systems, and it trades on NASDAQ as QCOM.