Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary

Qualcomm’s System Validation & Emulation (SVE) team is part of the central SoC validation organization responsible for ensuring end-to-end silicon quality across pre- and post-silicon phases.

This role focuses on content quality and system-level validation enablement, offering deep exposure to Qualcomm SoCs through bare-metal validation content, scalable automation frameworks, and complex system debugs. Engineers in this role work across HW and SW boundaries to develop, validate, and scale system-level test content, ensuring high-quality silicon validation across a wide range of SoC domains.

Excellent Opportunity to work on cutting-edge SoCs across multiple product segments, including:

- Premium mobile and flagship platforms
- Data center
- AI Accelerator platform

Role Overview

Lead end-to-end validation of clock, power, reset, and power-management architectures for next-generation AI accelerator platforms. Drive pre-silicon and post-silicon validation of Clocking infrastructure, PMIC integration, DVFS, and low-power features across complex multi-die AI systems. Partner closely with Architecture, Design, Verification & Firmware teams to debug and root-cause power, performance, stability, and scalability issues. Define validation methodologies, stress workloads, and automation frameworks to ensure robust operation under demanding AI training and inference scenarios. Own power subsystem bring-up readiness and delivery of production-quality silicon across all program milestones

An ideal candidate combines expertise in Clocking, DVFS, Power Management, PMIC,



Firmware, Silicon Bring-up, and AI/HPC platform validation

Roles & Responsibilities

- Own the E2E bare metal framework validation SoC clock and power architectures
- Validation planning – understand design changes, visualize standalone and system level test requirements and scenarios
- Test plan development – clearly document test strategy and dependencies
- Conduct validation strategy and test plan review with all stakeholders – architects, designers, verification engineers, software engineers
- Develop scalable device drivers, standalone and system tests using C
- Debug complex issues both on pre-Si and post-Si platforms, provide debug direction
- Review validation platform schematics to ensure post-Si debug support – might have to work with platform design team
- Automate validation process – development, execution, inference using python, perl, shell
- Use lab instruments – multimeter, oscilloscopes , logic analyzer
- Efficiently collaborate with teams in different time zones – both internal and external

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (electronics, computer engineering etc.)
- 5+ years of relevant experience in SoC validation and / or associated areas (SW development, embedded systems etc.)




- Prior work experience in clock/ power validation
- Proficient in C, Python
- Experienced in using lab instruments – multimeter, oscilloscopes , logic analyzers
- Exposure to debug tools (JTAG etc.). Knowledge of debug methodology of ARM based SoCs
- Very good at problem solving - analytical and debugging skills

Preferred Qualifications

- Prior exposure to below SW skills would add an edge above other applicants:
- Experience with Cross-Compilers, Linkers and makefiles
- Understanding of coherency and concurrency in modern SoC architecture

- Knowledge of PMIC/ prior experience in validating rail power (power measurement tools/ setups)
- Knowledge of pre-Silicon validation and debug on FPGA based emulation platforms is a plus
- Knowledge of RTL and HDLs (Verilog/ System Verilog) would be an additional advantage
- Should have prior work experience in a cross functional matrix work setting

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

- Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

- PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may

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