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

The team is currently seeking candidate specifically for SOC Infrastructure/NoC, Power and Performance Validation in pre-silicon emulation and post-silicon of industry-leading ,next generation AI Accelerator and compute platform. An ideal candidate is expected to have an excellent understanding of digital design fundamentals, on-chip interconnects, writing content to validate and analyze SOC bus architecture, performance and power.

Roles & Responsibilities

- Come up with thorough performance validation plans and work closely with team members to ensure Performance-Power trade-offs are factored in
- SOC Bandwidth, QoS, Latency and Throughput analysis

Minium Requirements

- BS or MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.




- 7+ years of experience in silicon validation, or platform bring-up.
- Interconnect architectures - NoCs, AXI, AHB etc. Knowledge of upstream and downstream operations and the ability to write programs to stress their transactions for appropriate coverage
- Solid expertise in various FIFO designs and related performance/functionality aspects
- Memory hierarchy and caches - coherency, consistency (ordering), memory types and attributes, synchronization & semaphores, full-system concurrency, MTE, MPAM
- Thorough understanding of CPU and DDR concepts, Multimedia, GPU, Peripherals
- System low power modes, Dynamic clock and voltage scaling operations, Interrupt architecture
- Debug architecture - interactions with JTAG based debuggers, state dump scripts
- In depth debugging experience for Complex HW and SW issues
- Experience working with Perfmon architecture -performance counters, telemetry data, and hardware/software co-optimization.
- Drive correlation between pre-silicon models, emulation platforms, and silicon performance measurements.
- Evaluate AI inference and training workloads to ensure optimal throughput, latency, memory bandwidth, and power-performance efficiency.
- Contribute to methodology development for performance characterization, benchmarking, and KPI tracking across product generations.




- Create performance dashboards, reports, and technical reviews for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience in embedded systems/expertise in C, C++, Python and assembly languages. Design and Implementation of drivers and test content
- Logical thinking and problem-solving ability with focus on Power, Performance and SoC System feature validation
- Fundamental understanding of Static, Leakage and Dynamic power in a semiconductor design
- Familiarity in debug tools including JTAG and kernel debuggers

Preferred Qualification

- Strong understanding of computer architecture, AI/ML accelerators, memory hierarchy, cache coherency, and on-chip interconnects.
- Knowledge of AI/ML workloads, tensor operations, matrix multiplication, transformer models, and large-scale inference systems.
- Familiarity with System level debug, silicon bring-up

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 prospect 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 e-mail [email protected] or

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