CPU Emulation Sr Lead Engineer

Qualcomm; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Accessible workplace for all employees

Support for individuals with disabilities

Job summary

A global technology innovator is seeking a Hardware Engineer to work within a CPU verification team. The role involves developing CPU emulation-based solutions, overseeing performance verification, and ensuring system optimization. Ideal candidates should possess a bachelor's or higher degree in a related field and have experience with emulation platforms. This opportunity offers competitive compensation and a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of Hardware Engineering or related experience.
• Experience with emulation platforms is preferred.
• Knowledge of CPU architecture is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop test bench infrastructure for CPU emulation.
• Work closely with CPU teams to deliver solutions.
• Execute verification plans and debug test failures.

Skills

C/C++ proficiency

SystemVerilog expertise

Emulation platforms experience

Scripting (Perl, Python)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Palladium

Zebu

Veloce

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

Job 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.

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.

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