Senior Emulation Performance Methodology & Debug Engineer

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Tijuana; On-site; MXN 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

QUALCOMM SEMICONDUCTORES Y SISTEMAS AVANZADOS DE BAJA CALIFORNIA in Baja California seeks an experienced engineer for the Emulation Team. You will work on FPGA prototyping, emulation tools, and pre-silicon platforms for SoC development, collaborating with architects, designers, and verification engineers.

The role requires expertise in Verilog/SystemVerilog, C, Python, TCL, and FPGA/Xilinx or Intel devices, with strong debugging and timing closure skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum: a degree in Science/Engineering with 2+ years ASIC design/verification experience.
• Master's with 1+ year ASIC experience; PhD may count toward duration.
• Proven experience in emulation and pre-silicon environments is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Work on emulation platforms and tools for pre-silicon SoC development.
• Collaborate with architects, designers, verification engineers, software engineers, and customers.
• Contribute to pre-silicon prototyping, bring-up, and FPGA emulation deployments.

Skills

Verilog / SystemVerilog

C programming

Python

TCL

FPGA prototyping

CPU/SoC architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science/Engineering

Master's degree in Science/Engineering

PhD in Science/Engineering

Tools

Veloce

Palladium

Xilinx FPGAs

Intel FPGAs

Synthesis

Place and Route

Constraints

Timing Closure

Waveform Debug

Job description

Company:

QUALCOMM SEMICONDUCTORES Y SISTEMAS AVANZADOS DE BAJA CALIFORNIA

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

Minimum Requirements:

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

Preferred Requirements:

5+ years of experience working in emulation and silicon environments.

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.

Qualcomm's Emulation Team is part of the central SoC digital hardware organization responsible for the overall development and support of SoC pre-silicon platforms. The Emulation team works closely with architects, designers, verification engineers, software engineers, and customers. The team is currently seeking candidates with experience in the following technical disciplines, languages, and methodologies:

• Emulation Platforms (FPGA Prototyping, Veloce, Palladium), Emulation tools (Synthesis, Place and Route, Constraints, Clocking, Timing Closure), System Debug (Waveform generation and Content Debug support)
• SoC Functionality (CPU/DSP Core, Multimedia, IO, Peripherals, DDR, Modem, Bus Protocols)

Preferred Requirements

4+ years of experience working in emulation and silicon environments. Candidates are expected to have experience in:

• Design, development, and deployment of uniform global methodologies for emulation build generation and debug across FPGA based emulation platforms of various configurations
• Cross-site collaboration, vendor engagements, and executive communication
• Pre-silicon prototyping for new SoC designs, including pre-silicon enablement and bring-up
• Bring-up of new FPGA emulation/prototyping hardware and software
• Debugging low level software and hardware issues
• Debug tools including JTAG and kernel debuggers
• Validation and debug of digital circuits
• CPU and SoC architectures, with solid understanding of SoC building blocks (interconnects, power management, PMIC, NoC, peripherals)
• Basic understanding of power and performance
• Expertise in Verilog / SystemVerilog
• Experience with C programming
• Scripting: Proficient in Python, TCL
• FPGA Expertise: Xilinx/Intel FPGAs, Tools, and timing closure techniques

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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