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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

SoC Debug Engineer - Staff, ASICS Engineering

Hardware Validation & TestingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSan Diego, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of experience with pre-silicon and post-silicon enabling, bring-up, and analyzing failures at the embedded platform level.
  • Experience with RTL inspection and understanding of basic RTL.
  • Experience solving complex debug problems in pre-silicon and post-silicon phases.
  • Experience leading the development and implementation of solutions for faster platform-level debugging, including isolating failing system components.
  • Experience creating debug strategies and plans for partners to triage failures more rapidly and isolate specific components, including PVT and marginality issues.
  • Experience in SysDebug lead roles driving complex issues to root cause.
  • Experience debugging low-level software and hardware issues.
  • Experience using debugging tools, including JTAG.
  • Experience using lab equipment such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and signal generators.
  • A Master's degree in Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering is stated as required.
  • Alternatively, a bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience; a master's degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 3+ years of such experience; or a PhD in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 2+ years of such experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead bring-up, debugging, and failure analysis at the embedded platform level in pre-silicon and post-silicon phases.
  • Inspect RTL and perform root-cause analysis for pre-silicon debugging; use JTAG and silicon exposure to investigate post-silicon issues.
  • Lead initiatives to accelerate platform-level debugging, including isolating failing system components.
  • Create and lead debug strategies and plans for partners to triage failures and isolate components, including PVT and marginality issues.
  • Perform real-time debugging and troubleshooting of server hardware, including motherboards, processors, memory, storage devices, power supplies, and networking components.
  • Investigate manufacturing defects, determine root causes, and implement corrective actions to improve product quality and reliability.

Desired Qualifications

  • Strong programming and scripting skills in C, Assembly, Perl, Python, or similar languages.
  • Good understanding of power and performance.
  • Strong knowledge of TCU, PVT, Fmax, and Vmin test methodology, with hands-on experience.
  • Knowledge of CPU and SoC architectures for server, compute, and mobile chipsets.
  • Hands-on experience handling server-specific use cases, including server boot configuration and server reset scenarios.
  • Experience debugging server reboot stress scenarios, including cold and warm boot.
  • Knowledge of multi-die secure boot flow and debugging in multi-die configurations.

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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