Sr Lead Engineer - Post Si Validation

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In short

Qualcomm is seeking a Sr Lead Engineer for Post Si Validation in Bangalore, India. The role involves bring-up of SVE convex infra, IST framework, and owning SoC regression suites. Responsibilities include executing validation releases, using silicon debug hooks, and reporting issues.

Responsibilities

Part of Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC - Silicon Validation team, focused on bring-up of SVE convex infra and IST framework for VI content enablement.
Understand IP architecture, collaborate with IP validation teams and Systems validation Lead/system content engineer to grasp validation requirements.
Develop, port, and enhance validation software content and bring-up.
Own SoC frequent regression and execute end-to-end regression suite, considering SoC design corner cases for power and performance.
Execute SOC validation releases on bench in lab and support SLT teams in debug and feature enablement.
Utilize silicon debug hooks to measure power/performance/coverage and other KPI metrics.
Report issues and debug failures regularly with team members.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
Basics of processor architecture, Multicore/Multiprocessor with SMP/MTE/heterogenous cores.
C language expertise for low-level programming, Assembly language for any processor, C-assembly interworking.
Knowledge of operating systems/RTOS/Linux kernel internals, scheduling policies, locking mechanism, MMU/paging etc.
Experience using JTAG based debuggers, compilers/linkers.
Good exposure to software development life cycle.

Desired Qualifications

Exposure to working on emulation/pre-si environment is an added advantage.
Exposure to SoC architecture paradigms – interconnects, power management.
Software development for silicon enablement, silicon validation.
Bring-up of hardware-software solution on FPGA/emulation platforms and on fresh SOC designs.
Software for power/performance KPIs.
Good knowledge of ARM Cortex-A7/A8) / x86 / PowerPC CPU and memory system architecture.
Weakly ordered memory model/pipelining of memory systems/memory barriers.
Software development towards higher performance of multi-threaded applications using lower power.
Top level of ASIC design methodology is an added skill.

Benefits

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer.
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