Staff design Verification Engineer

Qualcomm; Dadri; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited is seeking an experienced Staff DV Engineer to drive Pre-Si validation for DDRSS IP across product tiers. Based in Bangalore/Hyderabad, you will build robust DV environments, enhance test benches, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design quality and timely delivery.

Candidates should have 8+ years in ASIC DV, strong System Verilog/UVM skills, familiarity with DDR families, and exposure to silicon bring-up and HW-SW debugging.

Qualifications

• Thorough understanding of Digital design concepts
• Strong Debug, UVM, System Verilog
• Understanding of Bus protocols like AHB/AXI/ACE/ACE-Lite
• Understanding of multi-core ARMv8 CPU architecture, coherency protocols and virtualization
• Good understanding of DDR families (LP/PC) and generations (DDR2/3/4/5)
• Quick understanding of Specs and Standards and developing relevant and thorough test plans
• Monitors, scoreboards, sequencers and sequences, that utilize scripts, System Verilog, UVM, and methodologies to increase the rate with which bugs are found and resolved
• Candidates should be comfortable checking our builds, navigating big test benches, analyzing coverage, and adding or enabling extra debug, Must be willing to dig into fail and understand what is happening
• 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

Responsibilities

• Expertise of DDRSS DV test bench and other associated collaterals (Checkers, Trackers, Scoreboards, Assertion, Functional Coverage)
• Planning & execution of feature additions and mode re-enablement on particular variants
• Debug of regression signatures and identifying bug fixes
• Developing/Deploying new tools for validation (Certitude, VC Formal, Fishtail)
• Working with all stakeholders to ensure program success

Skills

Digital design concepts

Debug/UVM/SystemVerilog

Bus protocols (AHB/AXI/ACE)

ARMv8 CPU architecture

DDR generations (DDR2/3/4/5)

Test plans

Monitors/scoreboards/sequencers

Debugging large test benches

HW-SW debug

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Certitude

VC Formal

Fishtail

Job description

Company

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm ASIC Engineer, you will define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for a variety of high performance, high quality, low power world class products. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional groups to determine product execution path.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Job profile for Staff DV Engineer

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age - and this is where you come in.

Our team does Pre-Si validation for DDRSS IP across all the product tiers at Qualcomm. Our team is spread across Bangalore and Hyderabad site. As of now, we are looking to hire experienced hardware engineers and managers with solid technical talent and extremely good people management skills for our Bangalore team. We encourage people to gain thorough knowledge depth and breadth to enable novel test-bench / DV environment development, out of the box thinking to break the design in an unorthodox way. This would also encompass exploring and developing new technologies to make this process more robust.

Role Responsibilities

• Expertise of DDRSS DV test bench and other associated collaterals (Checkers, Trackers, Scoreboards, Assertion, Functional Coverage)
• Planning & execution of feature additions and mode re-enablement on particular variants
• Debug of regression signatures and identifying bug fixes
• Developing/Deploying new tools for validation (Certitude, VC Formal, Fishtail)
• Working with all stakeholders to ensure program success

Designation : Staff Engineer

No. of years experience - 8+

Minimum Qualifications (second part)

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

Required Skill Set

• Thorough understanding of Digital design concepts
• Strong Debug, UVM, System Verilog
• Understanding of Bus protocols like AHB/AXI/ACE/ACE-Lite
• Understanding of multi-core ARMv8 CPU architecture, coherency protocols and virtualization
• Good understanding of DDR families (LP/PC) and generations (DDR2/3/4/5)
• Quick understanding of Specs and Standards and developing relevant and thorough test plans
• Monitors, scoreboards, sequencers and sequences, that utilize scripts, System Verilog, UVM, and methodologies to increase the rate with which bugs are found and resolved
• Candidates should be comfortable checking our builds, navigating big test benches, analyzing coverage, and adding or enabling extra debug, Must be willing to dig into fail and understand what is happening
• 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

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