2 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$100k - $149k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end issue triage, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and stakeholder communication.
- Investigate hardware, firmware, and software failures across accelerator cards, servers, racks, and test fixtures.
- Gather, analyze, and correlate validation and failure data to identify trends and isolate root causes.
- Develop, integrate, and document hardware and software bring-up, validation, and debug processes.
- Design and enhance test automation infrastructure and create debug tools, test scripts, and diagnostic procedures.
- Execute validation plans for accelerator cards, server platforms, Ethernet, PCIe, and high-speed I/O interfaces.
- Track issue resolution and communicate progress, root causes, corrective actions, and status.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related experience; alternatively, a master’s degree plus 1+ year, or a PhD in a related field.
- Experience debugging and validating enterprise-class hardware, firmware, and software systems.
- Strong understanding of server architectures, AI accelerators or GPU cards, PCIe, networking, and system integration.
- Hands-on experience with failure analysis, root-cause investigation, laboratory environments, and system bring-up.
- Proficiency with hardware debug equipment such as oscilloscopes, JTAG tools, and diagnostic instrumentation.
- Familiarity with Linux-based automation and scripting, along with strong troubleshooting and hardware-debug skills.
- Preferred experience includes server manufacturing test, system qualification, Python or similar scripting, large-scale validation-data analysis, protocol or logic analyzers, rack-scale AI, HPC, data-center platforms, and engineering-lab infrastructure.
- Strong communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and potential annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- The position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.
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.