Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

Senior Staff – Product and Test Engineer - Hardware Engineering

Hardware Validation & TestingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeSan Diego, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or a related field and 6 or more years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience; or a Master's degree in one of those fields and 5 or more years of related experience; or a PhD in one of those fields and 4 or more years of related experience.
8 or more years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
2 or more years of experience with hardware design and measurement instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and RF tools.
1 or more years in a technical leadership role, with or without direct reports.
Work independently with little supervision.
Use verbal and written communication skills to convey complex or detailed information to multiple individuals and audiences with differing knowledge levels; the role may require negotiation, influence, and communication to large groups or high-level constituents.
Use advanced data analysis and interpretation skills to solve problems with missing or conflicting information.

Responsibilities

Create test plans, test procedures, manufacturing solutions, and hardware designs for leading-edge mid-high power ASIC products using advanced process technologies.
Perform silicon design verification, debug functional device issues and bugs, and characterize and analyze electrical parameters and key performance indicators against design simulations.
Interface with cross-functional teams, including designers, Software/System Engineering, Architecture Development, Business Groups, customers, and Customer Engineering, to incorporate test solutions into production programs and improve yield, test time, and quality.
Evaluate the reliability of materials, properties, and techniques used in production.
Develop complex hardware design features and components in line with proposals or roadmaps, and advise less experienced engineers on shared testing and design tasks.
Apply advanced design rules and processes for electronic hardware, equipment, and integrated circuitry independently, with a basic understanding of other domains.
Read device specification sheets, interpret complex details needed to design hardware features, and guide less experienced engineers in working with specification sheets.
Optimize tests and hardware designs by evaluating device performance across operating conditions and configurations.
Evaluate complex design features for electrical, mechanical, and hardware flaws, compatibility issues, and compliance issues, and advise less experienced engineers on design evaluations.
Document complex details about device materials, components, chipsets, and functionality, considering compatibility, safety, and compliance; assist less experienced engineers with documentation.
Troubleshoot advanced product-design issues, find solutions, and document and share them with internal teams working on similar products.
Provide technical input, support, and documentation for internal customers, and advise less experienced engineers on providing client support.
Act as technical lead on mid-sized to large projects and own project outcomes.
Manage project activities, including meetings, documentation, and deliverables, between teams working on the same or similar products across locations and time zones, and bring projects to conclusion.
Evaluate and test hardware designs using knowledge of Qualcomm products, identify components or functions that may be suitable for IP patents, and share findings with a manager.
Maintain deep knowledge in a specific area, acquire advanced knowledge of industry trends, competitor products, and engineering advances from public information, share knowledge with the team, and help less experienced engineers understand and apply advanced concepts.
Conduct or review specialized analyses such as feasibility studies, signal integrity, power integrity, and teardown analyses, and guide and provide feedback to junior engineers in conducting and interpreting analyses.
Develop design implementation, analysis, methodology, flows, and automation for development and validation of systems-on-chip, electronic parts, components, integrated circuitry, and packaging.
Provide design solutions to evaluate and characterize products and develop design implementations for leading-edge products using advanced processes.
Interface with cross-functional teams, including RF, analog and digital IC designers, Software, System Engineering, Test Engineers, Customer Engineering, and Operations, to incorporate design solutions into production programs and improve yield, productivity, and quality.
Make decisions with moderate impact, where errors may affect finances, projects, operations, or customer relationships and may require involvement beyond the immediate work group to correct.
Influence key organizational decisions by providing input to senior leadership.
Complete tasks without defined steps, determine suitable approaches, and exercise creativity to innovate processes, procedures, or work products within established guidelines or objectives.
Participate occasionally in strategic planning affecting immediate operations.

Desired Qualifications

A Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
8 or more years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
2 or more years of experience with hardware design and measurement instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and RF tools.
1 or more years in a technical leadership role, with or without direct reports.

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary:

Creates test plans, test procedures, manufacturing solutions, HW designs for leading-edge mid-high power ASIC products in the most advanced process technologies. Performs silicon design verification, debug functional device issues/bugs, characterization, and analyses of electric parameters/KPIs vs design simulations. Interfaces with various cross-functional teams (e.g. Designers, Software/System Engineering, Architecture Development, Business Groups, Customers, Customer Engineering) to drive and incorporate the latest test solutions in the production program to improve the yield, test time, and quality. Evaluates reliability of materials, properties, and techniques used in production.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
8+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
2+ years of experience with hardware design and measurement instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF tools, etc.
1+ years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Develops complex features and components of hardware designs in line with proposals or roadmaps for complex products; advises less experienced engineers working together on common testing and design tasks.
Applies advanced design rules and processes for electronic hardware, equipment, and/or integrated circuitry independently; has a basic understanding of other domains.
Reads device specification sheets and interprets complex details required to design various hardware features; provides guidance to less experienced engineers working with spec sheets.
Identifies advanced ways to optimize tests and/or hardware designs by evaluating device performance over a wide range of operating conditions and configurations.
Evaluates complex design features to identify potential flaws (electrical, mechanical, hardware), compatibility issues, and/or compliance issues; advises less experienced engineers on design evaluations.
Documents complex details about materials, components, chipsets, and functionality for a device while being mindful of potential compatibility, safety, and compliance issues; assists less experienced engineers in their documentation of these details.
Troubleshoots advanced issues with product designs and finds solutions that are documented and shared with internal teams working on similar products.
Provides essential technical input, support, and documentation for internal customers; advises less experienced engineers on how to provide support for clients.
Acts as a tech lead on mid-sized to large projects and owns the outcome of the project.
Manages project-related activities (e.g., meetings, documentation, deliverables) between their team and other teams working on the same or similar products, operating across locations and time zones; brings the project to conclusion.
Utilizes deep understanding of Qualcomm products to evaluate and test hardware designs and identify unique components or functions that could potentially be filed for IP patents; shares these findings with their manager.
Displays deep knowledge in a specific area; acquires advanced knowledge of industry trends, competitor products, and advances in various engineering fields from publicly available information; shares knowledge with others on team and helps less experienced engineers understand and apply advanced concepts.
Conducts specialized analyses (e.g., feasibility studies, signal integrity, power integrity, teardown analyses) and/or reviews analyses conducted; provides guidance and feedback to junior engineers in the execution and interpretation of these analyses.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Additional responsibilities may also include:

Develops design implementation, analysis, methodology, flows, and automation for development and validation of System on Chip, electronic parts, components, integrated circuitry, and packaging.
Provides design solutions to evaluate, characterize and develop the design implementation solution for leading-edge products in the most advanced processes.
Interfaces with various cross functional teams (RF, Analog and Digital IC designers, Software, System Engineering, Test Engineers, Customer Engineering, and Operations) to drive and incorporate the latest design solutions in the production program to improve yield, productivity, and quality.

Level of Responsibility:

Working independently with little supervision.
Making decisions that are moderate in impact; errors may have financial impact or effect on projects, operations, or customer relationships; errors may require involvement beyond immediate work group to correct.
Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. May require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.
Having a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to provide input on key decisions).
Completing tasks that do not have defined steps; simultaneous use of multiple mental abilities is generally required to determine the best approach; mistakes may result in significant rework.
Exercising substantial creativity to innovate new processes, procedures, or work products within guidelines or to achieve established objectives.
Using deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required.
Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.

The responsibilities of this role do not include:

Financial accountability (e.g., does not involve budgeting responsibility).

Qualcomm is committed to hiring and supporting individuals with disabilities. Although this role has some expected physical activity, an inability to perform one or more of the listed physical requirements should not deter otherwise qualified applicants from applying. We will work with you throughout the application and onboarding process to provide reasonable accommodations. Examples of expected physical activity include: frequently transporting between offices, buildings, and campuses up to ½ mile; frequently transporting and installing equipment up to 5 lbs.; performing tasks at various heights (e.g., standing or sitting); monitoring and utilizing computers and test equipment for more than 6 hours a day; and continuous communication which includes the comprehension of information with colleagues, customers, and vendors both in person and remotely.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$169,800.00 - $254,600.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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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