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:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR
  Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
  OR
  PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Summary:

Qualcomm's SoC Validation Team (SVE - System Validation & Emulation) is looking for self-motivated engineers who will be part of bare-metal SoC validation framework team and will have the following responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and debug system/IP validation frameworks for bare-metal and lightweight RTOS environments to support SoC validation (Pre-Si and Post-Si).

• Develop and maintain scalable framework components, including adaptation layers for heterogeneous cores and backend system infrastructure IPs/modules.

• Automate nightly, weekly, and full regression runs for hardware/software validation to ensure continuous quality.

• Integrate static analysis tools and manage release/configuration for a robust Continuous Integration (CI) environment.

• Collaborate with IP and SoC validation teams to deliver comprehensive validation features across the framework for both SoC and IP.

Minimum Qualification:

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering/Computer Science or related field

• 8 to 14 years of working experience Mandatory Skills:

• Strong expertise in Embedded Software architecture and development using C, C++, and Assembly.

• Proficiency in low-level programming in C and assembly, including C-assembly interworking.

• Solid understanding of CPU architectures (ARMv8/ARMv9, x86, PowerPC), including interrupt handling, cache coherency, and I/O coherency.

• Knowledge of SoC architecture with multicore/multiprocessor systems, SMP, and heterogeneous cores.

• Familiarity with Operating Systems, RTOS, and Linux kernel internals (multithreading, scheduling policies, locking mechanisms, virtual memory/MMU/paging).

• Deep understanding of memory management, weakly ordered memory models, pipelining, and memory barriers.

• Expertise in software build toolchains (compilers, Makefiles, linker/scatter files).

• Proficiency with compilers/linkers (GCC, CLANG, RVDS, LLVM) and experience in code optimization and resolving linker issues.

• Strong knowledge of Makefile syntax and ability to automate builds and manage dependencies.

• Experience with JTAG interfaces/tools for hardware debugging.

• Scripting skills in Python and Shell scripting.

Desired Skills:

• Exposure to SoC architecture paradigms (interconnects, power management) and pre-silicon emulation environments.

• Experience with boot code development for ARM processors.

• Hands-on experience in silicon enablement, silicon validation, and board bring-up on FPGA/emulation platforms and new SoC designs.

• Familiarity with build automation tools (e.g., Jenkins) and creating automated pipelines.

• Understanding of regression testing methodologies and ability to design and execute comprehensive test suites.

• Proficiency in source code management tools (Perforce, Git, SVN)

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