8 days ago
Markham, CanadaMid Level
Base Salary
$130k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Perform ASIC silicon bring-up and functional, electrical, performance, and power validation of audio IP, DSPs, interfaces, and low-power AI/ML accelerators.
- Develop and execute block-level and full subsystem/SoC functional test and validation plans.
- Use audio generators, analyzers, oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, probes, and related lab equipment to validate hardware.
- Develop firmware, drivers, procedures, and test automation to improve validation speed and coverage.
- Test and debug on ASIC platforms and FPGA prototyping or emulation systems.
- Collaborate with digital, mixed-signal, verification, architecture, and software/firmware teams to isolate and resolve issues.
- Collect, analyze, and validate performance specifications and requirements.
Requirements
- At least two years of embedded firmware development with C, firmware, silicon validation, or related experience.
- Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, or a related field with four or more years of relevant experience; alternatively, a master's degree with three or more years or a PhD with two or more years.
- Strong programming or scripting skills in C, assembly, and Python.
- Understanding of embedded system design, CPU and 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 such as AHB, AXI, or APB, and low-level hardware/software debugging.
- Familiarity with machine learning algorithms, raw analog/digital audio formats, and source control tools such as Perforce or Git.
- Strong analytical, debugging, communication, collaboration, and attention-to-detail skills.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and potential annual RSU grants are offered.
- Qualcomm provides a 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.