SOC Performance Validation Engineer – Staff / Sr Staff level

Overview

Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

Job Overview:

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age – and this is where you come in.

GENERAL SUMMARY

Digital – Oversees definition, design, verification, and documentation for ASIC development for a variety of products. Determines architecture design, logic Qualcomm’s validation team is part of the central SoC digital hardware organization responsible for the overall quality of the SoC silicon. The validation team works closely with architects, designers, verification engineers, software engineers, and customers. The team is currently seeking candidate specifically for SOC Performance validation in pre-silicon emulation and post-silicon system testing.The candidate is expected to have an excellent understanding of digital design fundamentals, on-chip interconnects, writing content to validate and analyze SOC performance.

Required Skills:

+ SOC Bandwidth, QoS, Latency and Throughput analysis

+ Interconnect architectures – NoCs, AXI, AHB etc. Knowledge of upstream and downstream operations and the ability to write programs to stress their transactions for proper coverage

+ Solid expertise in various FIFO designs and related performance/functionality aspects

+ Come up with thorough performance validation plans and work closely with team members to ensure Performance-Power trade-offs are factored in

+ Low power modes

+ Dynamic clock and voltage scaling operations

+ Interrupt architecture

+ Debug architecture – interactions with JTAG based debuggers, state dump scripts

+ Performance monitor architecture

+ Thorough understanding of CPU concepts (specifically ARM architecture concepts)

+ Memory hierarchy and caches – coherency, consistency (ordering), memory types and attributes, synchronization & semaphores, full-system concurrency, MTE, MPAM

+ Experience in embedded systems/low level HW programming in C and assembly languages

+ Design and Implementation of drivers and test content

+ Debugging low level software and hardware issues

+ Familiarity in debug tools including JTAG and kernel debuggers

+ Structured program development concepts

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

+ Frequently transports between offices, buildings, and campuses up to ½ mile.

+ Frequently transports and installs equipment up to 5 lbs.

+ Performs required tasks at various heights (e.g., standing or sitting).

+ Monitors and utilizes computers and test equipment for more than 6 hours a day.

+ Continuous communication which includes the comprehension of information with colleagues, customers, and vendors both in person and remotely.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Bachelors – Engineering, Bachelors – Science

Work Experiences:

5+ years ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.

Certifications:

Skills:

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

Bachelors – Computer Engineering, Bachelors – Computer Science, Bachelors – Electrical Engineering

Work Experiences:

8+ years ASIC design, verification, or related work experience. ,2+ years experience with architecture and design tools. ,2+ years experience with scripting tools and programming languages. ,2+ years experience with design verification methods. ,1+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above).

Certifications:

Skills:

ARM Architectures, ARM Assembly Language, Assembly Language (ASM), C (Programming Language), Cache Memory, Central Processing Units (CPU), JTAG, SoCs, System on Chip (SoC) Validation, Validation

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