SoC Validation Engineer
Qualcomm
Other Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on May 30, 2025
Company
Qualcomm India Private Limited
Job Area
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering
General Summary
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.
Minimum Qualifications
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.
Qualcomm's SoC Validation Team (SVE - System SOC/silicon Validation) 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.
We are looking for self-motivated engineers who will be part of bare-metal SoC validation team and will have the following responsibilities.
Responsibilities
Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.
To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
3074334
Qualcomm India Private Limited
Job Area
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering
General Summary
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
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.
Qualcomm's SoC Validation Team (SVE - System SOC/silicon Validation) 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.
We are looking for self-motivated engineers who will be part of bare-metal SoC validation team and will have the following responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, debug system/IP validation framework to be used in bare-metal and light-weight-RTOS environment for SoC validation in one of the areas mentioned below
- Understand the SoC architecture, new features and prepare test plan
- Develop/port/enhance system validation content based on system level use cases, low power use cases, find HW bugs and root cause them
- Interface with Design/Verification/Software/Customer Engineering teams for test plan and debugs
- Interface with various IP validation team and cross functional teams(Design/Verification/SW) for test plan creation and debug complex issues
- Use silicon debug hooks to measure power/performance/coverage and other KPI metrics
- Manage a team of silicon validation team members
- Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering/Computer Science or related field
- 11+ years of working experience in SOC validation (Candidates with less experience with good academics from premier institutes can also be considered)
- Good knowledge and understanding of Embedded SW architecture and development in C, C++, Assembly
- C language expertise for low level programming, assembly language for any processor, C-assembly interworking
- Hands on end to end experience in one or more of the IP validation flow from architecture review, testplan creation, testcases development, execution, debugs: CPUSS, DDRSS, Multimedia (Camera, Video, Display, GPU) blocks
- Good Experience in working closely with Design/Verification/Arch/Customer Engineering teams for IP/SOC validation planning, execution and debugs
- Good knowledge of ARM/X86/PowerPC CPU architecture, Interrupt handling, Cache coherency, IO Coherency
- Good knowledge of SoC architecture having Multicore/Multiprocessor with SMP/heterogenous cores, memory management, CPU concepts
- Having experience of managing team members as people manager
- Compiler/Linker: Proficient in using compilers and linkers such as GCC, CLANG, RVDS, LLVM, Experience in optimizing code and resolving linker issues to ensure efficient and error free builds
- Experience in using JTAG interfaces and tools for debugging SOC/silicon design issues
- Scripting languages such as Python, shell scripting etc.
- Exposure to SoC architecture paradigms – interconnects, power management, emulation(pre-Si) environment
- Exposure to working on emulation/pre-si environment is added advantage
- Experience working with boot code for ARM processors
- Knowledge of Operating systems/RTOS/Linux kernel internals, multithreading, scheduling policies/locking mechanism, Virtual memory/MMU/paging etc
- Software development for silicon enablement, silicon validation, design issue debugs
- Board Bring-up/Bring-up of hardware-software solution on FPGA/emulation platforms and on fresh SOC designs
- Exposure to build automation: Experience with build automations tools such as Jenkins and experience in creating automated build pipelines to stream line the development process
- Exposure to Regression testing: Understanding of the regression testing methodologies and tools. Ability to design, implement and execute comprehensive regression test suites to ensure software quality and stability
- Code Reviews: Ability to conduct thorough and constructive code reviews to maintain code quality, ensure best practices and identify the areas of improvements
Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.
To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
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