CPU Design Sr Staff Verification Engineer
Qualcomm · Posted Oct 13
Semiconductor, 5G wireless technology, mobile platform, and AI computing solutions
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About the role
Qualcomm's Hardware Engineering group plans, designs, optimizes, verifies, and tests electronic systems and IP that launch cutting-edge products, collaborating across functional teams to meet performance requirements. This role sits with the CPU verification team in Bangalore, which is hiring DV engineers to verify high-performance, low-power CPUs. The engineer will own power management verification covering boot, reset, clock gating, power gating, voltage/frequency management, limit management and throttling, working closely with design, verification, SoC, software and emulation teams.
What you will do
- Responsible for power management verification includes Boot, Reset, clock gating, power gating, Voltage/frequency management, limit management and throttling.
- Work closely with design/verification teams within CPU to develop comprehensive test plan.
- Use simulation and formal verification methodologies to execute test plans. Write checkers, assertions and develop stimulus.
- Verify power intent through use of methodologies like UPF.
- Work closely with system architects, software teams and Soc team to validate system use cases.
- Work closely with emulation team to enable verification on emulators and FPGA platforms.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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.
- BE/BTech degree in CS/EE with 12+ years' experience.
- Experience in power management verification.
- Implementation of assembly and C language embedded firmware.
- Experience in C/C++, scripting languages, Verilog/system Verilog.
- Strong understanding of power management features in CPUs and CPU based Socs.
- Experience in verification of power management features such as clock gating, power gating, UPF, DVFS/DCVS, reliability, throttling etc.
Preferred qualifications
- Good Understanding of CPU architectures and CPU micro-architectures.
- In-depth knowledge of digital logic design, micro-processor, debug feature, and DFT architecture and microarchitecture
- Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal and assertions is a plus
- Knowledge and verification experience in DFT and structural debug concepts and methodologies: JTAG, IEEE1500, MBIST, scan dump, memory dump is a plus
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a global leader in the development and commercialization of foundational technologies for the wireless industry, including mobile processors, 5G, and on-device artificial intelligence. The company designs and markets digital communications products, semiconductor solutions, and system software used globally across smartphones, automotive solutions, IoT devices, and computing systems. Through extensive R&D and intellectual property licensing, Qualcomm powers a highly interconnected and smarter world.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 50000+ employees
- Founded
- 1985
- Location
- San Diego, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $53M raised
- 2018-11-01Grant
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
James H. Thompson
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
Ann Chaplin
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
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