DPU Silicon System Debug Engineer

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

Job summary

Qualcomm is seeking a DPU Silicon System Debug Engineer in Bengaluru to address complex display issues across its platforms. The role focuses on debugging SoC, system, and software-related display problems, requiring strong analytical skills, proficiency in C/C++ and Python, and system-level debugging experience.

Ideal candidates will hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or a related field. This position offers an opportunity to work with cross-functional teams and contribute to developing reliable products.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in C/C++ and Python for tool development.
• Solid understanding of digital logic and computer architecture.

Responsibilities

• Debug and root-cause display subsystem issues.
• Develop and maintain scripts/tools for log analysis.
• Document investigations and communicate status.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

C/C++ proficiency

Python proficiency

Attention to detail

Written and verbal communication

System-level debugging experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or related discipline

Tools

Excel

MySQL

Job description

Company

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering

General Summary

Join our Display Processing Unit (DPU) Silicon System Debug team to solve complex, high-impact display issues across leading Qualcomm platforms—working at the intersection of silicon, systems, and software to deliver reliable customer products.

Role Overview

The DPU Silicon System Debug Engineer investigates, diagnoses, and resolves complex display subsystem issues across Qualcomm platforms. You will partner with hardware, software, validation, and customer engineering teams to drive rapid root-cause analysis and help the relevant teams implement durable fixes.

Leveling

• Engineer: Contributes to debugging and triage efforts with guidance and builds scripts/tools to improve analysis and turnaround time.
• Senior Engineer: Leads ambiguous, cross-layer investigations end-to-end, influences technical direction across teams, and mentors engineers to scale best practices.

Team Overview

Qualcomm is a global leader in wireless technologies and semiconductors, powering many of the world’s connected devices. The DPU Silicon System Debug team sits within the Display Subsystem Hardware Design organization and partners closely with hardware, software, and customer engineering teams to diagnose and resolve critical display failures across multiple product areas, including mobile, automotive, compute, XR/VR, and IoT. Our work helps ensure customer issues are resolved quickly, software teams receive the support they need for their display driver development, and hardware designers get our feedback to roll in changes and fixes for future chips.

Role Focus

This role focuses on debugging complex display issues that may be SoC-related (e.g., RTL defects, register configuration/sequence issue), system-related (e.g., PCB signal integrity, third-party SerDes interactions), and/or software-related (e.g., HLOS behavior, driver sequencing, race conditions). You will help improve debug efficiency by building workflows and tools to analyze large volumes of system logs, register dumps, and hardware debug data. The team is investing heavily in AI-enabled approaches to accelerate analysis through historical-case learning and agentic automation.

Qualifications (required)

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to triage and debug complex technical issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document findings and align cross-functional stakeholders.
• Proficiency in C/C++ and Python for tool development, automation, and data analysis.
• Solid understanding of digital logic and computer architecture fundamentals.
• Comfort analyzing large datasets and logs using common analysis tools (e.g., Excel, scripting).
• System-level debugging experience (typical ranges: Engineer 2+ years; Senior Engineer 5+ years). Display subsystem experience is a plus.

Nice to have

• System-level debug experience including board bring-up, high-speed signal integrity analysis, and SerDes-based links.
• Experience with display interfaces (e.g., MIPI DSI, HDMI, DisplayPort) and related protocols.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) for tracking issues, data mining, and/or analytics.
• Experience using AI-assisted debugging/development tools or automation to accelerate root-cause analysis.

What you’ll do

• Debug and root-cause display subsystem issues spanning silicon, board/system interactions, and software/driver behavior.
• Develop and maintain scripts/tools to accelerate analysis of OS logs, register dumps, and hardware debug data.
• Partner with hardware, software, validation, and customer engineering teams to reproduce issues, align on hypotheses, and drive fixes to closure.
• Document investigations clearly (symptoms, reproduction steps, root cause, and corrective actions) and communicate status to stakeholders.
• Senior Engineer expectation: Lead cross-functional debug efforts end-to-end, mentor teammates, and help define scalable debug processes and best practices.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Master’s degree is preferred but not required.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities.