CPU Core Validation Engineer (Staff/Senior Staff)

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited is seeking a CPU Core Validation Engineer (Staff/Sr. Staff) to join the CPU Validation team.

You will validate CPU core pipeline and micro-architectural features, develop test plans, and work with design and verification teams to ensure robust bring-up and end-to-end validation across emulation and silicon. The role requires strong experience in silicon validation, embedded firmware, and a solid toolchain, with opportunities to influence future CPU bring-ups and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/EE or related field with 4+ years hardware engineering or related experience.
• Master's degree in CS/EE or related field with 3+ years hardware engineering or related experience.
• PhD in CS/EE or related field with 2+ years hardware engineering or related experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed test plans based on IP architecture and micro-architectural features.
• Collaborate with CPU design and verification teams to craft bring-up and validation plans for the IP.
• Create validation methodologies and test contents for emulators (pre-Si) and on silicon.
• Coordinate with SOC bring-up and software teams to plan CPU core bring-up and end-to-end validation.
• Triage and debug silicon failures and contribute to test content and strategies for silicon validation.
• Reproduce silicon fails on emulators and FPGAs with CPU verification teams.
• Suggest and design new debug features to improve future CPU bring-ups.

Skills

Silicon validation & bring-up

Embedded firmware (assembly, C/C++)

Software toolchain (assemblers, C comp

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Master's degree in CS/EE

PhD in CS/EE

Job description

Company

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

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

Role overview

As a CPU Core Validation Engineer(Staff/Sr. Staff) you would be part of CPU Validation team in CPU org working on validation of CPU core pipeline arch and micro arch features.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop detailed test plan considering the IP arch and uarch features.
• Work with CPU design and verification teams to develop CPU bring up and functional validation test plans for the IP owned.
• Develop validation methodology and test contents to exercise on emulators during pre-Si phase and on Silicon.
• Work with SOC bring up teams, software teams to plan CPU core features bringup and end to end validation.
• Triage and debug failures on Silicon.
• Develop test contents and testing strategies to assist validation of CPU on silicon.
• Work with CPU verification teams to reproduce silicon fails on emulators and FPGAs.
• Work with design team to suggest, architect new debug features to improve future CPU bringups.

Minimum Requirements

• BA/BS degree in CS/EE with 7 to 16 years experience.
• 7+ Experience in Silicon Validation and bring up.
• Implementation of assembly, C/C++ language embedded firmware
• Experience with software tool chain including assemblers, C compilers, Makefiles, and source code control tools.

Preferred Requirements

• Good understanding of micro-processor architecture, 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 writing Test plans and Assembly code.
• Ability to develop and work independently on a block/unit of the design.