CPU PostSi Val Staff 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 designs, verifies, and tests electronic systems, circuits, and packaging for next-generation products, with this role focused on the CPU subsystem validation team. The team builds and maintains validation infrastructure spanning bare-metal and OS-based full-stack environments such as TFA, Linux, hypervisor, and TEE. This Staff Engineer will drive functional validation of custom CPU features, enable low-power and DVFS features for CPU domains, and provide bring-up, debugging, and profiling support across complex software-hardware stacks.
What you will do
- Development and maintenance of CPU subsystem validation infrastructure, involving both bare-metal and OS-based full-stack environments (such as TFA, Linux, hypervisor, TEE).
- Execution and debugging of functional validation for custom CPU features.
- Enablement and validation of low-power and DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling) features for CPU domains.
- Debugging and profiling support across bare-metal and full-stack environments.
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 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
- Experience Required: 8 to 20 Years
- ARM v8/v9 architecture (preferred).
- Low-level firmware and architecture-specific code.
- Caches, MMU, interrupts, debug subsystems, and exception handling.
- Experience with one or more of RTOS, Linux kernel, trusted firmware, hypervisors, and device drivers.
- Strong bring-up and debugging skills in complex environments.
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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