NOC DV Sr Lead Engineer

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

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited is seeking an experienced Hardware Verification Engineer to design, verify, and test complex SoC IPs for smartphones and tablets. The role emphasizes DV test benches, coverage, and collaboration with global teams to ensure quality and performance goals are met.

The candidate should bring strong UVM expertise, ARM bus protocol knowledge, and scripting abilities to automate validation tasks and debug post-silicon issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master’s Degree in Electronics & Communication / Micro Electronics
• 8 Years of Experience in IP verification or related
• Experience with UVM and ARM Bus protocols.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of DV test bench and other associated collaterals (Checkers, Trackers, Scoreboards, Assertion, Functional Coverage)
• Develop test plan and test cases to cover design feature set; follow up on code coverage and functional coverage closure
• Work with System Architects, Design, emulation teams on failure debugging and coverage closure
• Debug regression signatures and identify bug fixes
• Responsible for Quality sign-off and required documentation
• Develop/deploy scripts/tools for validation (Certitude, VC Formal, VPlan)
• Debug and root cause post-silicon issues with Design, SW and test teams
• Collaborate with SoC level performance modeling team on latency, bandwidth analysis

Skills

UVM verification

ARM bus protocols

SystemVerilog

Debugging

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electronics & Communications / Micro Electronics

Master's degree in Electronics & Communications / Micro Electronics

PhD in Electronics & Communications / Micro Electronics

Tools

Certitude

VC Formal

VPlan

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.

Looking for an experience Verification Architect/ Engineer

Looking for an experience Verification Architect/ Engineer, who will be responsible for verification of next generation Infrastructure IPs (DDRSS, Memory Controllers etc.) which goes into System-on-chip (SoC) for smartphones, tablets and other product categories. In this position you will be expected to plan and implement IP/Cluster/Formal verification flows for the Infra IPs. Also expected to coordinate with different Design and SOC teams throughout the IP development cycle.

Job responsibilities include

• Ownership of DV test bench and other associated collaterals (Checkers, Trackers, Scoreboards, Assertion, Functional Coverage)
• Develop test plan and test cases to cover design feature set, follow up with stakeholders on code coverage, functional coverage closure at different levels of test bench
• Work closely with System Architects, Design, emulation teams on failure debugs, code/functional coverage closure
• Debug of regression signatures and identifying bug fixes
• Responsible for Quality sign off and required documentation
• Developing/Deploying scripts/tools for validation (Certitude, VC Formal, VPlan)
• Debug and root cause post silicon issues in collaboration with Design, SW and test teams
• Work with SoC level performance modeling team on latency, bandwidth analysis next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all.

Required skillset include

• Strong debugging, Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Expertise on UVM based verification
• Knowledgeable about ARM bus protocols, Virtual Memory concepts, SoC system architecture
• Experience in developing Monitors, Scoreboards, Sequencers that utilize scripts, System Verilog, UVM, and methodologies to increase the rate with which bugs are found and resolved
• Communication and collaboration skills to work with a large world-wide design organization

Desired skillset includes

• Experience in designs optimized for low power - Dynamic clock gating, Logic/ Memory power collapse
• Experience in verifying designs meeting Automotive Safety Integrity Levels (ASIL)
• Proficiency in Scripting languages (Python or Perl) for Automation initiatives, C/C++/SystemC for performance models
• Post-si bring-up and HW-SW debug experience would be a plus. Knowledge & exposure to silicon debug tool chains would be an added advantage

Qualification :

• Bachelor/Master’s Degree in Electronics & Communication / Micro Electronics
• 8 Years of Experience in IP verification or related
• Experience with UVM and ARM Bus protocols.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Policy & Confidentiality

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