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

1 day ago

Employment Type

Full Time

Work mode

On Site

Experience Level

Senior

Locations

Bangalore, India

Qualification

Bachelor, Master, Doctoral

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