DV Power Vectors & Window Extraction Engineer (Staff/Sr Staff)
Qualcomm · Posted Oct 11
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 optimizes the electronic systems and silicon behind next-generation SoC products. This role focuses on power-vector development, execution, analysis, and window extraction across simulation, emulation, and silicon-validation environments, with emphasis on design verification, low-power design, power analysis, and waveform debugging. The engineer will partner with DV, Design, Power, Physical Design, Emulation, PTE, and Post-Silicon teams to deliver power-analysis windows and vector collateral.
What you will do
- Develop and execute DV power vectors covering key workloads, power states, transitions, boot flows, retention, reset, and stress scenarios.
- Bring up and maintain simulation, emulation, and power-aware verification environments.
- Analyze waveforms, activity dumps, power reports, and execution logs to identify meaningful power-analysis windows.
- Extract and document windows for peak power, average power, dynamic voltage drop, thermal analysis, and pre-silicon/post-silicon correlation.
- Debug vector failures, power-state sequencing issues, missing activity, waveform mismatches, and unexpected power behavior.
- Collaborate closely with DV, Design, Power, Physical Design, Emulation, PTE, and Post-Silicon teams.
- Maintain traceability between test cases, configurations, waveforms, extracted windows, and delivered vector collateral.
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. OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 7-15 years of experience in Design Verification, power-aware verification, vector development, or power analysis.
- Strong understanding of: RTL simulation and waveform analysis, SystemVerilog/UVM or equivalent verification environments, Low-power concepts, power states, clock gating, retention, and isolation, Simulation, emulation, GLS, or silicon-validation flows, Power estimation and activity analysis
- Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Shell, or Tcl.
- Experience using waveform-debug and power-analysis tools.
- Ability to identify representative, peak, and corner-case power windows.
- Strong debugging, analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
- Experience working across multiple engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with UPF and power-intent verification.
- Knowledge of CPU, SoC, memory, interconnect, or subsystem power behavior.
- Experience with dynamic voltage drop, IR-drop, VMIN, or thermal analysis.
- Familiarity with emulation platforms and large-scale workload execution.
- Experience correlating pre-silicon power results with post-silicon measurements.
- Understanding of frequency-voltage operating points and power-performance tradeoffs.
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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