Validation Engineer - Staff

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Tijuana; Presencial; MXN 420.000 - 660.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Qualcomm Silicon Validation team in Baja California seeks engineers for SOC validation and integration across pre-silicon emulation and post-silicon regression, focusing on system level software use cases and performance optimizations.

Candidates should have strong OS concepts, bare-metal software experience, and proficiency in C and Assembly, with some Python scripting. Collaboration with hardware and software teams is essential for robust validation results.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Science, Engineering, or related field required.
• Experience with bare-metal software development and low-level hardware interfaces.
• Proficiency in C and Assembly language; scripting exposure is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
• Experience with system validation, emulation, and post-silicon bring-up is advantageous.

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop, and optimize validation tests for multi-processor systems focusing on system-level concurrency.
• Develop and maintain bare-metal software, including low-level hardware interfaces and clock/power management.
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to define system-level software use cases.
• Debug and troubleshoot SoC with limited visibility using development boards and lab equipment.
• Implement and optimize algorithms for performance, power efficiency, and memory footprint.
• Support pre-silicon validation efforts with simulation, emulation, and FPGAs.
• Conduct post-silicon bring-up and validation for system integration.

Conocimientos

Operating systems concepts

Bare-metal software development

C

Assembly language

Scripting (Python/Linux shell)

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Descripción del empleo

Company:

QUALCOMM SEMICONDUCTORES Y SISTEMAS AVANZADOS DE BAJA CALIFORNIA

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm's Silicon Validation team is part of the central SoC digital hardware organization responsible for the overall quality of the SoC silicon. The validation team works closely with architects, designers, verification engineers, software engineers, and customers. The team is currently seeking candidates specifically in SOC validation and integration in pre-silicon emulation and post-silicon regression, PVT test areas. Technical disciplines, languages and methodologies included in this team are:

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and optimize validation tests for multi-processor systems with a focus on system level concurrency.
• Develop and maintain bare-metal software, including low-level hardware interfaces, register and interrupt programming, and clock and power management.
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to define and validate system level software use cases.
• Debug and troubleshoot System-On-Chip with limited visibility, using development boards and lab equipment.
• Implement and optimize algorithms for performance, power efficiency, and memory footprint.
• Support pre-silicon validation efforts, working with simulation, emulation, and FPGAs.
• Conduct post-silicon bring-up, validation, system level use cases, and system integration.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of operating systems concepts, caching, virtual memory, and embedded software fundamentals.
• Experience with bare-metal software development and low-level hardware interfaces.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
• Experience programming in C, Assembly language.
• Some exposure to scripting language (Python, Linux shell, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with developing and applying machine learning models for system validation.
• Familiarity in reading and understand the RTL code (e.g. Verilog, VHDL) and use the knowledge in the context of silicon validation.

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.

Applicants:

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