28 days ago
Cupertino, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$176k - $263k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement generation objects for RISC-V extensions, micro-architectural scenarios, and composable data/control-flow idioms.
- Add instruction forms and encodings to the Python assembler library and verify bit-level correctness against the RISC-V ISA specification.
- Write and tune knob-driven generation themes to improve RTL coverage.
- Develop privileged-software sequences involving exception and interrupt handlers, page-table builders, PMP configuration, and IMSIC programming.
- Collaborate with ISS and RTL verification engineers to triage failures, add regression scenarios, and adjust constraint logic.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 4+ years of relevant experience; or 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 encoding, CSR semantics, privilege levels, and the memory model, or comparable x86 or ARM knowledge.
- Familiarity with virtual memory, Sv39/Sv48, PMP, and trap or interrupt handling.
- Exposure to random test-generation flows or ISS/RTL co-simulation is preferred.
- Compiler development experience, knowledge of hypervisor or AIA/IMSIC interrupt architecture, and familiarity with constraint-propagation libraries are nice to have.
Benefits
- Annual pay range of $175,600.00–$263,400.00, plus a discretionary bonus program and potential annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
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.