CPU Verification Engineer

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Markham; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Canada ULC is seeking a Design Verification Engineer to validate CPU and SOC micro-architectures. You will work with Chip Architects to ensure launch readiness, develop verification environments, and execute plans across DV bring-up and regressions.

Applicants should have deep micro-processor verification knowledge, experience leading verification teams, and proficiency with formal methods, assertions, and silicon bring-up.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of micro-processor verification functions and architectures.
• Experience with RIS and unit/subsystem level proofing.
• Experience leading a small verification team.
• Advanced techniques like formal verification and silicon bring-up helpful.
• Strong test plan and portable testbench creation skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with CPU and SOC architects on concepts and requirements.
• Create detailed test and coverage plans from architecture.
• Develop verification methodology for scalable environments.
• Build verification environments with stimuli, checkers, assertions, trackers, and coverage.
• Prepare verification plans and testbenches for your domain.
• Execute plans: bring-up DV environment, run regressions, debugging failures.
• Track DV progress with metrics like bugs and coverage.

Skills

Micro-Processor Verification

RIS testing

Team leadership

Formal verification

Test plans

Test benches

Transactors

Assembly code

Simulators

Coverage tools

Gate-level sim

Waveform viewers

Mixed-signal verif

Independent work

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

BS in Computer Engineering

BS in Computer Science

MS in Electrical Engineering

PhD in EE/CE/CS

Tools

Simulators

Coverage tools

Gate-level sim

Waveform viewers

Mixed-signal verif

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

General Summary:

As a Design Verification Engineer, you will work with Chip Architects to validate the concepts of CPU and SOC level micro-architectures. You will work on a selected part of the CPU Design Verification to ensure that it functions to the standards of being launch ready for the end Product.

Role and Responsibilities

• Work with CPU and SOC Architects to understand the concepts and high-level system requirements.
• Develop detailed Test and Coverage plans based on the Architecture and Micro-architecture.
• Develop Verification Methodology, ensuring scalability and portability across environments.
• Develop Verification environment, including all the respective components such as Stimulus, Checkers, Assertions, Trackers, and Coverage.
• Develop Verification Plans and Testbenches for your functional domain.
• Execute Verification Plans, including Design Bring-up, DV environment Bring-up, Regressions enabling all features under your care, and Debug of the test failures.
• Track and report DV progress using a variety of metrics, including Bugs and Coverage.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of Micro-Processor Verification functions and Architectures, in domains such as: Cache Coherence, Memory ordering and Consistency, Prefetching, Branch Prediction, Renaming, Speculative execution, and Address Translation/Memory Management.
• Knowledge of Random Instruction Sequencing (RIS) and testing a given design, at the Block/Unit-level and Subsystem/Chip-level for proving correctness.
• Experience in leading a small team of Verification engineers performing CPU Verification.
• Advance techniques such as: Formal, Assertions, and Silicon bringup, is helpful.
• In-depth knowledge of Micro-processor functions, Architectures, and Micro-architectures.
• Experience in writing Test plans, portable Testbenches, Transactors, and Assembly code.
• Experience with different Verification Methodologies and Tools such as Simulators, Coverage collection, Gate-level Simulation, Waveform viewers, and Mixed signal Verification.
• Ability to develop and work independently on a Block/Unit of the design.
• A minimum of BS degree in any of: {Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science}.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

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