1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Understand IP architecture and validation requirements with IP design and verification teams.
- Develop, port, and enhance validation software and firmware for IP bring-up.
- Debug complex firmware and software scenarios and resolve firmware issues.
- Collaborate with design, verification, software, and other teams on test plans and debugging.
- Validate IP functionality, identify weaknesses and bugs, and determine root causes.
- Use silicon debug hooks to measure power, performance, coverage, and other KPI metrics.
- Work with minimal supervision and mentor or guide junior coworkers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field plus 4+ years of ASIC or related experience, or a master's degree plus 3+ years, or a PhD plus 2+ years.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical, Electronics, Computer Science, or related engineering is listed as a minimum qualification.
- 2–10 years of hardware engineering or related work experience.
- Excellent understanding of embedded systems, SoC architecture, processor architecture, and memory interfacing.
- Excellent C expertise with hands-on firmware development and debugging experience.
- Experience in IP validation and exposure to DDR or other high-speed protocols.
- Exposure to emulation and pre-silicon environments.
- Experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or other instruments.
- Experience using JTAG-based debuggers, compilers, and linkers.
- Understanding of software development lifecycle practices, SoC interconnects, and power management.
- Experience with software development for silicon enablement and silicon validation.
- Exposure to a scripting language, preferably Python.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
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.