Senior ASIC Validation Engineer

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In short

Qualcomm is looking for a Senior ASIC Validation Engineer in Bangalore, India. The role involves developing low-level drivers, bootloaders, and firmware, along with leading post-silicon bring-up and validation. Responsibilities include root-cause analysis of silicon failures, hardware debug, and developing Python-based automation frameworks for validation.

Responsibilities

Develop low-level drivers, bootloaders, BSPs, middleware, and application firmware.
Work closely with hardware, RTL and DV engineers to develop and debug.
Lead post-silicon bring-up and validation of given module of ASIC/SoC products.
Drive debug and root-cause analysis of silicon, firmware, and system-level issues.
Develop firmware and low-level software required for silicon bring-up, subsystem enablement, and debug.
Debug complex hardware-software integration issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, JTAG/SWD debuggers, and other laboratory equipment.
Analyze protocol traces, link training behavior, LTSSM states, error logs, and performance bottlenecks.
Develop production-quality software, including testing, documentation, static analysis, and CI/CD/CT.
Develop Python-based automation frameworks for validation and regression testing.
Interacting with hardware, software and other teams to validate SoCs with minimum delays.

Requirements

Strong programming skills in C and C++ for resource-constrained systems.
Proficient in Python programming.
Excellent knowledge in low-level firmware/baremetal HW/IP driver writing.
Root-cause analysis of silicon failures and Hardware debug and failure isolation.
Performance characterization and Power and thermal validation.
In-depth understanding of the HW is a must.
Exposure to Hardware initialization, Validation diagnostics development and firmware optimizations.
Good knowledge of how to use embedded development tools such as JTAG and associated debug tools.
Work experience on ARM Cortex platform/ MIPS/RISC-V cpus.
Familiarity with software configuration management tools, defect tracking tools, and peer review.
Work experience on Heterogeneous and Multiprocessor SoC platforms.
Strong communication skills to exchange ideas and work as a team.
Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

Desired Qualifications

Work experience with FPGAs based platforms is plus.
Good knowledge of System software stack, Power Management, High speed peripherals, USB, SDIO, Ethernet, PCIe etc and memory subsystem like DDR/LPDDR etc.
Exposure to PCIe Gen4/Gen5/Gen6, 25G/50G/100G/200G/400G Ethernet, CXL, DDR4/DDR5/LPDDR, SerDes, UCIe interface validation.
Exposure to Pre-Silicon environment with RTL Co-Simulations is plus point.
Experience with development environments such as Linux, Git, Jira and Confluence.

Benefits

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer.

Skills

CC++Pythonfirmwarebaremetal HWIP driverHardware debugJTAGARM CortexMIPSRISC-VFPGASystem softwarePower ManagementUSBSDIOEthernetPCIeDDRLPDDRSerDesUCIesoftware configuration managementdefect trackingpeer reviewbootloadersBSPsmiddlewareoscilloscopeslogic analyzersprotocol analyzersSWD debuggersCI/CDGitJiraConfluence

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