Staff Engineer - Post-Si Validation

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In short

Staff Engineer, Post-Si Validation role at Qualcomm in Bangalore, India, focusing on silicon validation for Snapdragon SoCs. Responsibilities include IP architecture understanding, validation software development, regression execution, and silicon debug.

Responsibilities

Part of Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC - Silicon Validation team, focusing on SVE convex infra and IST framework for VI content enablement.
Understand IP architecture, work with IP validation teams and Systems validation Lead/system content engineer to understand validation requirements, develop/port/enhance validation software content and bring up.
Own SoC frequent regression and execute end-to-end regression suite considering SoC design corner cases wrt power and performance.
Execute SOC validation releases on bench in lab and support SLT teams in Debug and enabling different features in the framework.
Use silicon debug hooks to measure power/performance/coverage and other KPI metrics.
Work with relevant team members for regular reporting of issues and failure of debugs.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years 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.
Operating systems/RTOS/Linux kernel internals, scheduling policies, locking mechanism, MMU/paging etc.
Exposure to working on emulation/pre-si environment is added advantage.
Using JTAG based debuggers, compilers/linkers.
Good exposure to software development life cycle.

Desired Qualifications

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.
Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process for individuals with disabilities.
Qualcomm is committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities.

Skills

CAssemblyLinuxJTAGARM Cortex-A7ARM Cortex-A8x86PowerPC

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Company

Qualcomm

Job Posted

17 hours ago

Employment Type

Full Time

Work mode

On Site

Experience Level

Senior

Locations

Bangalore, India

Qualification

Bachelor, Master, Doctoral

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