CPU Core Validation Engineer (Staff/Senior Staff) - CPU Pipeline and uarch experts

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited seeks a seasoned Hardware Engineer to plan, design, verify, and test complex electronic systems including CPU core validation. You will work on pre-Si emulation, silicon bring-up, and end-to-end validation with cross-functional teams across design, verification, and software.

The role emphasizes developing test plans, debugging silicon issues, and contributing to robust CPU bring-up, with opportunities to influence future architectures and debug capabilities.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed test plans aligned with IP architecture and micro-architecture features.
• Collaborate with CPU design and verification teams for bring-up and functional validation of IP.
• Create validation methodologies and test contents for emulators, pre-Si, and silicon.
• Coordinate with SOC bring-up and software teams for CPU core feature bring-up and end-to-end validation.
• Triage and debug silicon failures; develop tests to validate CPU on silicon.
• Work with verification teams to reproduce silicon fails on emulators and FPGAs.
• Suggest and help architect new debug features for future CPU bring-up.

Skills

Hardware Engineering

CPU Validation

C/C++ embedded

Test Planning

Debugging

Linux

Silicon Bringup

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering

PhD in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Makefiles

C/C++ compilers

Assembly

Job description

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.
• 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.

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 bringup’s.

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.

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