SOC Verification Principal Engineer
Qualcomm · Posted Sep 28
Semiconductor, 5G wireless technology, mobile platform, and AI computing solutions
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About the role
Qualcomm's ASIC Engineering group defines, models, designs, optimizes, verifies, validates, implements, and documents IP (block/SoC) development for high performance, high quality, low power products. The team works on processor-based SoC verification environments spanning native, Verilog, SystemVerilog and UVM, including protocols such as UFS, Ethernet, PCIe and AXI-AMBA. This principal engineer role owns verification scope, test plans, assertions, coverage and verification infrastructure while collaborating with architects, designers, and pre/post silicon verification teams.
What you will do
- Understand the design specification and implementation, define the verification scope, develop test plans, tests, and the verification infrastructure and verify the correctness of the design.
- Responsible to implement and analyze system Verilog assertion and coverage(code, toggle, functional) .
- Work alongside other members of the verification team to analyze, develop and execute verification test cases and able to provide relevant solution to issue.
- Collaborate with architects, designers, and pre and post silicon verification teams to accomplish your tasks.
- Adhere to quality standards and good test and verification practices.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
- B.E/B. Tech/M.E/M. Tech in electronics with 12+ year experience in verification domain.
- Prior work experience on IP level or Soc level.
- Prior work on UFS (Universal Flash Storage),Ethernet and PCIe Protocol is desirable.
- Good understanding of processor based Soc level verification which includes native ,Verilog ,system Verilog and UVM mix environment.
- Hand on experience with verification tools such as VCS, waveform analyzer and third party VIP integration (such as Synopsys VIPs).
- Hands on experience in UVM. C/C++ ,System Verilog verification language.
- Good understanding of AXI-AMBA protocol variants.
- Can work with scripting language (shell, Makefile, Perl )
- Strong understanding of design concepts and ASIC flow.
- Good problem solving , analytical and debugging skill is mus
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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