1 day ago
Markham, CanadaMid Level
Base Salary
$130k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Perform functional, electrical, performance, and power validation for audio IP cores, DSPs, audio interfaces, codecs, and low-power AI/ML accelerators.
- Develop, implement, and execute block-level and full subsystem/SoC test and validation plans.
- Use audio generators, analyzers, oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, probes, and related lab equipment to validate silicon.
- Develop firmware, drivers, procedures, and test automation to improve validation efficiency.
- Test and debug ASIC platforms and FPGA prototyping/emulation systems.
- Collaborate with digital, mixed-signal, hardware architecture, verification, and software/firmware teams to isolate and resolve issues.
- Collect, analyze, and validate performance specifications and requirements.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of embedded firmware development, C, firmware, silicon validation, or related experience.
- Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, or a related field plus 4+ years of relevant ASIC experience, or a master's degree plus 3+ years, or a PhD plus 2+ years.
- Strong programming or scripting skills in C, assembly, Python, or similar languages.
- Understanding of embedded system design, including CPUs, bus architectures, caches, interconnects, and clocks.
- Experience with real-time embedded operating systems, embedded environments, low-level CPU or DSP programming, and board/platform debugging.
- Experience with lab equipment, JTAG, ARM-compliant debuggers, on-chip interconnects, and low-level hardware/software debugging.
- Familiarity with machine learning algorithms, raw analog/digital audio formats, and source control systems such as Perforce or Git.
- Strong analytical, debugging, communication, collaboration, and attention-to-detail skills.
Benefits
- Annual base pay range of $129,600.00–$179,600.00.
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for 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.