Senior ASIC Validation Engineer

Qualcomm; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited in Bengaluru is seeking an embedded software engineer with strong C/C++ and Python skills to work on resource-constrained systems. You will contribute to low-level drivers, bootloaders, and firmware, collaborating with hardware and RTL teams to ensure robust silicon bring-up and validation.

The role requires deep hardware understanding, experience with JTAG and debugging tools, and familiarity with PCIe, USB, and memory subsystems.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in C and C++ for resource-constrained systems.
• Proficient in Python programming.
• Excellent knowledge in low level firmware/baremetal HW/IP driver writing.
• Root-cause analysis of silicon failures and hardware debugging.
• Performance characterization and power/thermal validation.
• Deep understanding of the hardware.
• Exposure to hardware initialization, validation diagnostics development and firmware optimisations.
• Experience with embedded development tools such as JTAG and associated debug tools.
• Work experience on ARM Cortex platform and/or MIPS/RISC-V CPUs.
• Experience with FPGA-based platforms is a plus.
• Good knowledge of System software stack, Power Management, high-speed peripherals (USB, SDIO, Ethernet, PCIe), memory subsystems like DDR/LPDDR.
• Exposure to PCIe Gen4/Gen5/Gen6, 25G/50G/100G/200G/400G Ethernet, CXL, DDR4/DDR5/LPDDR, SerDes, UCIe interface validation.
• Familiarity with software configuration management tools, defect tracking tools, and peer review.

Responsibilities

• Develop low-level drivers, bootloaders, BSPs, middleware, and application firmware.
• Collaborate with hardware, RTL and DV engineers to develop and debug.
• Lead post-silicon bring-up and validation of ASIC/SoC modules.
• Drive debug and root-cause analysis of silicon, firmware, and system-level issues.
• Develop firmware and low-level software for silicon bring-up and subsystem enablement.
• Debug hardware-software integration issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, JTAG/SWD debuggers.
• Analyze protocol traces, link training, LTSSM states, error logs, and bottlenecks.
• Develop production-quality software with testing, documentation, static analysis, and CI/CD/CT.
• Develop Python-based automation frameworks for validation and regression testing.
• Collaborate with hardware, software and other teams to validate SoCs with minimal delays.

Skills

C and C++

Python

Firmware development

Hardware debugging

Pre-silicon bring-up

Linux development

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science/Engineering

Master's degree in Science/Engineering

PhD in Science/Engineering

Tools

JTAG debugging

Git

Jira

Confluence

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Protocol analyzers

Job description

Company

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary

• Strong programming skills in C and C++ for resource-constrained systems
• Proficent in Python programming
• Excellent knowledge in low level firmware/ baremetal HW/IP driver writing.
• Root-cause analysis of silicon failures abd Hardware debug and failure isolation
• Performance characterization and Power and thermal validation
• Indepth understand of the HW is must
• Should have exposure to Hardware initialization, Validation diagnostics development and firmware optimisations
• Good knowledge of how to use embedded development tools such as JTAG and associated debug tools
• Work experience on ARM Cortex platform/ MIPS/RISC-V cpus.
• Work Experience with FPGAs based platforms is plus
• Should have good knowledge of System software stack, Power Management, High speed peripherals, USB, SDIO,Ethernet,PCIe etc and memory subsystem like DDR/LPDDR etc.
• Exposure to PCIe Gen4/Gen5/Gen6,25G/50G/100G/200G/400G Ethernet,CXL,DDR4/DDR5/LPDDR,SerDes,UCIe interface validation
• Familiarity with software configuration management tools, defect tracking tools, and peer review.
• Work Experience with FPGAs based platforms is plus
• Work experience on Heterogeneous and Multiprocessor SoC platforms.
• Exposure to Pre-Silicon environment with RTL Co-Simulations is plus point
• Experience with development environments such as Linux, Git, Jira and Confluence
• Strong communication skills to exchange ideas and work as a team

Responsibilities

• Develop low-level drivers, bootloaders, BSPs, middleware, and application firmware.
• Work closely with hardware,RTL and DV engineers to develop and debug.
• Lead post-silicon bring-up and validation of given module of ASIC/SoC products.
• Drive debug and root-cause analysis of silicon, firmware, and system-level issues.
• Develop firmware and low-level software required for silicon bring-up, subsystem enablement, and debug.
• Debug complex hardware-software integration issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, JTAG/SWD debuggers, and other laboratory equipment.
• Analyze protocol traces, link training behavior, LTSSM states, error logs, and performance bottlenecks.
• Develop production-quality software, including testing, documentation, static analysis, and CI/CD/CT
• Develop Python-based automation frameworks for validation and regression testing.
• Interacting with hardware, software and other teams to validate SoCs with minimum delays

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

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