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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

CPU Post-Silicon Validation Engineer - Multiple Levels, CPU Engineering

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

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering and at least 5 years of experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience in silicon validation and bring-up.
  • Experience implementing embedded firmware in assembly and C/C++.
  • Experience with software toolchains including assemblers, C compilers, Makefiles, and source code control tools.

Responsibilities

  • Work with CPU design and verification teams to develop CPU bring-up and validation test plans.
  • Prepare for CPU bring-up through pre-work on emulation and FPGA platforms.
  • Work with SoC bring-up and software teams to plan CPU bring-up.
  • Triage and debug failures on silicon.
  • Develop test content and testing strategies to assist validation of CPU on silicon.
  • Work with CPU verification teams to reproduce silicon failures on emulators and FPGAs.
  • Work with the design team to suggest and architect new debug features to improve future CPU bring-up.

Desired Qualifications

  • Strong understanding of microprocessor architecture.
  • Strong understanding of power management and physical design concepts.
  • Experience in silicon bring-up and validation of CPU features.
  • Experience debugging functional, power, performance, and physical design issues, including speed-path debugging on silicon.
  • Experience in CPU design and verification.
  • Experience developing tests to validate CPU features on silicon.
  • Experience developing test vectors for tester bring-up.

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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