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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

ASIC Validation Engineer - ASIC Engineering

Hardware Validation & TestingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Strong programming skills in C and C++ for resource-constrained systems.
  • Proficiency in Python programming.
  • Excellent knowledge of low-level firmware, bare-metal hardware, and intellectual-property driver writing.
  • Ability to perform root-cause analysis of silicon failures, hardware debugging, and failure isolation.
  • Knowledge of performance characterization and power and thermal validation.
  • In-depth understanding of hardware.
  • Exposure to hardware initialization, validation diagnostics development, and firmware optimization.
  • Knowledge of embedded development tools such as JTAG and associated debugging tools.
  • Work experience on ARM Cortex, MIPS, or RISC-V CPUs.
  • Knowledge of system software stacks, power management, high-speed peripherals including USB, SDIO, Ethernet, and PCIe, and memory subsystems such as DDR and LPDDR.
  • Exposure to validation of PCIe Gen4/Gen5/Gen6, 25G/50G/100G/200G/400G Ethernet, CXL, DDR4/DDR5/LPDDR, SerDes, and UCIe interfaces.
  • Familiarity with software configuration management tools, defect tracking tools, and peer review.
  • Work experience on heterogeneous and multiprocessor SoC platforms.
  • Experience with development environments such as Linux, Git, Jira, and Confluence.
  • Strong communication skills to exchange ideas and work as a team.
  • A bachelor's degree in science, engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

  • Develop low-level drivers, bootloaders, board support packages, middleware, and application firmware.
  • Work closely with hardware, RTL, and design verification engineers to develop and debug.
  • Lead post-silicon bring-up and validation of assigned ASIC/SoC product modules.
  • Drive debugging and root-cause analysis of silicon, firmware, and system-level issues.
  • Develop firmware and low-level software required for silicon bring-up, subsystem enablement, and debugging.
  • Debug complex hardware-software integration issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, JTAG/SWD debuggers, and other laboratory equipment.
  • Analyze protocol traces, link-training behavior, LTSSM states, error logs, and performance bottlenecks.
  • Develop production-quality software, including testing, documentation, static analysis, and continuous integration, delivery, and testing.
  • Develop Python-based automation frameworks for validation and regression testing.
  • Interact with hardware, software, and other teams to validate SoCs with minimal delays.

Desired Qualifications

  • Work experience with FPGA-based platforms is a plus.
  • Exposure to pre-silicon environments with RTL co-simulations is a plus.

About the Company

Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

Qualcomm designs the Snapdragon processors and modems inside many Android phones, and it licenses its wireless patents to device makers around the world. It helped commercialize CDMA, the cellular technology behind 3G networks, and its patents cover core parts of the 4G and 5G standards that phones use to connect. The company does not run its own chip factories; contract foundries make its chips, which it sells to makers of phones, PCs, cars, and connected devices. Device makers also pay Qualcomm royalties for using its patented technology, which forms a second business alongside chip sales. Qualcomm was founded in 1985 and is based in San Diego, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Diego, CA
Founded
1985

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