PMIC Systems and Validation Engineer, Senior

Qualcomm; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited invites hardware engineers to join the PMIC Systems & Validation team. You will plan, design, verify, and test electronic systems for PMIC solutions used in consumer electronics, collaborating across analog, digital design, firmware, and customer engineering teams.

The role emphasizes systems definition, validation planning, test execution, and post-silicon verification, with a focus on reliability and performance across global projects.

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.

Responsibilities

• Own and participate in systems definition, HW/SW debugging and validation of PMIC solutions.
• Coordinate with Analog/Digital Design, Software and Customer Engineering teams.
• Develop a comprehensive functional validation plan and execute tests.
• Analyze results, debug issues and create reports.
• Interact with PMIC Product Management, Design & Characterization teams and customer-engagement teams.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electronics related Engineering

Master’s degree in VLSI / Microelectronics, Power Management

PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

Company

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary

Job DescriptionAs 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 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR

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

OR

PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.

• Additional Job Description

PMIC Systems & Validation EngineerTeam & Product Overview

Qualcomm's Power Management Systems, Validation & Integration team (PMIC-SVI) leads the industry in the system architecture and post-silicon validation of high-performance feature-rich Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMICs), that are embedded in our Chipsets - for smartphones, tablets, laptops, wearables and a variety of cutting-edge consumer electronics. This team gets to work on state-of-art technology to enable products with world’s leading brands.A typical Qualcomm PMIC is a highly advanced IC that has a multitude of IPs viz. switching DC-DC converters, linear regulators, clock oscillators, battery charger, fuel gauge, LED drivers, and ADCs. Additionally, there is an embedded mini-processor running critical firmware (FW) to support power sequencing, interrupt servicing, crash handling and various device reset scenarios. It is also responsible for maintaining various stability & performance related configurations that are part of SoC software driver initializations. Furthermore, it provides an intelligent-framework for sequencing of time-critical-operations, which otherwise can't be guaranteed by any OS / higher-level software. Often, Qualcomm chipset solutions contain multiple PMICs working together in sync – which together constitute a ‘PMIC-System’.

Job Responsibilities

This job involves a mix of Architecture, HW Systems, Functional Validation, Chipset integration & customer issue debug support. We are looking for Systems & Validation engineers with preferably 3 - 5 years of experience in analog/power electronics. Depending on your experience level and area of technical expertise you will own and participate in systems definition, HW/SW debugging and validation of PMIC solutions by partnering with various engineering teams like Analog/Digital Design, Software and Customer Engineering in a fast-paced environment. Systems involves coming up with a Top-Level specification (involving HW/FW/SW level partitioning of feature-design, HW Register interfaces, memory sizing, protocol selection, multi-PMIC connectivity grid, debug framework support, etc) to satisfy all chipset level requirements. Validation involves coming up with a comprehensive functional validation plan (that covers both manual and scripted automated test cases), executing them within stipulated time-period, analyzing results at HW-level (via signal measurements), debugging issues & creating reports. Engineers will be responsible to perform risk assessment of development and validation plans; and interact with PMIC Product Management, Design & Characterization teams; other SoC HW/SW Architecture, Development & Validation teams; and finally Customer-Engagement teams across worldwide sites.

Education Requirements

A Bachelor's degree in Electronics related Engineering is a must. Master’s degree is preferred esp. with specialization in VLSI / Microelectronics, Power Management, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

Applicants should be aware of fundamentals of PMIC, Power Management, Microcontroller architecture, basic-firmware & HW-SW interaction.Applicants should also have strong hands-on lab-experience in Post-Si Validation. (HW-level Bench