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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

CPU Verification Engineer - CPU Engineering

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

About the Job

Requirements

  • Deep knowledge of microprocessor verification functions and architectures, including cache coherence, memory ordering and consistency, prefetching, branch prediction, renaming, speculative execution, and address translation or memory management.
  • Knowledge of Random Instruction Sequencing (RIS) and testing designs at block/unit and subsystem/chip levels to prove correctness.
  • Experience leading a small team of verification engineers performing CPU verification.
  • Experience with advanced techniques such as formal verification, assertions, and silicon bring-up.
  • In-depth knowledge of microprocessor functions, architectures, and micro-architectures.
  • Experience writing test plans, portable testbenches, transactors, and assembly code.
  • Experience with verification methodologies and tools, including simulators, coverage collection, gate-level simulation, waveform viewers, and mixed-signal verification.
  • Ability to develop and work independently on a block or unit of the design.
  • A minimum BS degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.

Responsibilities

  • Work with CPU and SoC architects to understand concepts and high-level system requirements.
  • Develop detailed test and coverage plans based on the architecture and micro-architecture.
  • Develop verification methodology to ensure scalability and portability across environments.
  • Develop verification environments and components, including stimulus, checkers, assertions, trackers, and coverage.
  • Develop verification plans and testbenches for the functional domain.
  • Execute verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring-up, regression enablement for features under care, and debugging test failures.
  • Track and report design-verification progress using metrics including bugs and coverage.

Desired Qualifications

  • Advanced techniques such as formal verification, assertions, and silicon bring-up are helpful.

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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