CPU Emulation Engineer (Multiple Levels)

Qualcomm; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Qualcomm in Bengaluru is seeking a CPU Emulation Engineer to work with the CPU verification team. This role involves delivering emulation-based solutions, developing test bench infrastructure, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize CPU performance.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering and at least 2 years of relevant experience. Proficiency in C/C++, Systemverilog, and emulation platforms like Palladium is highly sought.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, with 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Master's degree in related field with 1+ years of experience.
• Experience with emulation platforms such as Palladium and Zebu.

Responsibilities

• Develop emulation-based solutions for CPU verification.
• Architect and develop test bench infrastructure in C/C++ and Systemverilog.
• Debug emulation performance and area issues.

Skills

C/C++ Programming

Systemverilog

Emulation platforms

Debugging skills

Scripting (Perl, Python)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

PhD in relevant field

Tools

Palladium

Zebu

Veloce

FPGAs

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.

Role Overview

As a CPU Emulation Engineer, you will work as part of CPU verification team to deliver emulation-based solutions for CPU team. You will work closely with all disciplines of CPU team to help verify and validate high performance CPUs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.

Role and Responsibilities

• Work closely with CPU RTL, performance, verification and SW teams to deliver emulation-based solutions.
• Architect and develop test bench infrastructure in C/C++ and Systemverilog for enabling CPU emulation across different platforms.
• Develop verification methodology, ensuring scalable and portable environment across simulation and emulation.
• Debug emulation performance and area issues to efficiently use emulation resources.
• Develop environment to run verification test cases, OS boot, performance benchmarks and other vectors.
• Develop debugging methodology to enable efficient debug and root causing of CPU functional and performance issues.
• Develop and maintain emulation environment to collect metrics related to emulation environment.
• Work closely with emulation CAD team to resolve infrastructure issues and ensure productivity on emulation models.
• Execute verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring-up, regression enabling for all features under your care, debug of the test failures.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with emulation platforms – Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, FPGAs.
• Experience with synthesizing and optimizing designs and verification components developed in synthesizable Verilog.
• Experience with C/C++ DPI transactors and monitors.
• Experience in scripting using Perl, Python or shell scripts. Experience with packaging workloads for cloud.
• Experience with debugging ARM CPU based designs. Knowledge on ARM ISA and programmers’ model is a plus.
• Experience with Linux boot and firmware aspects is a plus.
• Experience with CPU architecture and micro-architecture is a plus.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree 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.
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ 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 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

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