CPU Design Sr Lead Verification Engineer

Qualcomm; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability accommodations

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited in Bengaluru seeks experienced DV engineers to verify high-performance CPUs with a focus on power management. The role involves building and executing test plans, and hands-on verification across simulation, emulation, and silicon environments.

Collaborate with CPU/SoC teams, emulation and software groups to validate use cases, write checkers and assertions, and ensure robust power control features."

Qualifications

• name of degree requirements and years of hardware experience as stated in the Minimum Qualifications
• Experience in power management verification and embedded firmware development (assembly/C)
• Proficiency in C/C++, Verilog/SystemVerilog, and scripting languages
• Strong understanding of CPU power management features in CPUs and SoCs
• Experience verifying clock gating, power gating, UPF, DVFS/DCVS, reliability and throttling features

Responsibilities

• Verify power management verification including boot, reset, clock gating, power gating, voltage/frequency management, and throttling.
• Develop test plans with CPU design/verification teams.
• Use simulation and formal methods to implement checkers, assertions and stimuli.
• Verify power intent via UPF.
• Collaborate with system architects, software and SoC teams to validate use cases.
• Coordinate with emulation team for verification on emulators and FPGA platforms.
• Debug and triage failures in simulation, emulation or silicon.

Skills

Power management verification

C/C++ embedded

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Scripting languages

CPU architectures knowledge

UPF/DFT concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Master's degree in CS/EE

PhD in CS/EE

BE/BTech CS/EE

Tools

Emulation platforms

Simulation tools

Formal verification

Job description

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

Company

Qualcomm India Private Limited

General Summary

Qualcomm is hiring strong DV engineers to verify high performance and low power CPUs in Bangalore.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Responsible for power management verification includes Boot, Reset, clock gating, power gating, Voltage/frequency management, limit management and throttling.
• Work closely with design/verification teams within CPU to develop comprehensive test plan.
• Use simulation and formal verification methodologies to execute test plans. Write checkers, assertions and develop stimulus.
• Verify power intent through use of methodologies like UPF.
• Work closely with system architects, software teams and Soc team to validate system use cases.
• Work closely with emulation team to enable verification on emulators and FPGA platforms.
• Debug and triage failures in simulation, emulation and/or Silicon.

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.

BE/BTech degree in CS/EE with 4+ years’ experience.

• Experience in power management verification.
• Implementation of assembly and C language embedded firmware.
• Experience in C/C++, scripting languages, Verilog/system Verilog.
• Strong understanding of power management features in CPUs and CPU based Socs.
• Experience in verification of power management features such as clock gating, power gating, UPF, DVFS/DCVS, reliability, throttling etc.

Preferred Requirements

• Good Understanding of CPU architectures and CPU micro-architectures.
• In-depth knowledge of digital logic design, micro-processor, debug feature, and DFT architecture and microarchitecture
• Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal and assertions is a plus
• Knowledge and verification experience in DFT and structural debug concepts and methodologies: JTAG, IEEE1500, MBIST, scan dump, memory dump is a plus

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