CPU Verification Engineer (RISC-V)

Qualcomm; United States; On-site; USD 167,100 - 250,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

RSU grants

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Design Verification Engineer to validate CPU and SOC micro-architectures. You will work with Chip Architects to ensure launch-ready verification of key components.

You will develop verification plans, environments, and testbenches, and lead DV activities, reporting progress with metrics and debugging test failures to ensure reliability at product launch.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in EE/CE/CS with related work experience.
• 4+ years hardware/software engineering or related field for BS.
• 3+ years for MS; 2+ years for PhD.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with CPU and SOC Architects to understand system requirements.
• Develop detailed Test and Coverage plans from architecture.
• Create Verification methodology scalable across environments.
• Build verification environment with stimulus, checkers, assertions, trackers, coverage.
• Develop testbenches and plans for functional domains.
• Execute plans, bring up DV environment, run regressions, debug failures.
• Track DV progress using metrics like bugs and coverage.

Skills

RISC-V

CPU/SoC verification

Testbenches

Formal methods

Silicon bringup

Test plans

leadership

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering / Computer Science

MS in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering / Computer Science

PhD in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Tools

Simulators

Gate-level Simulation

Waveform viewers

Coverage tools

Transactors

Job description

Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

General Summary

As a Design Verification Engineer, you will work with Chip Architects to validate the concepts of CPU and SOC level micro-architectures. You will work on a selected part of the CPU Design Verification to ensure that it functions to the standards of being launch ready for the end Product.

Role And Responsibilities

• Work with CPU and SOC Architects to understand the concepts and high-level system requirements.
• Develop detailed Test and Coverage plans based on the Architecture and Micro-architecture.
• Develop Verification Methodology, ensuring scalability and portability across environments.
• Develop Verification environment, including all the respective components such as Stimulus, Checkers, Assertions, Trackers, and Coverage.
• Develop Verification Plans and Testbenches for your functional domain.
• Execute Verification Plans, including Design Bring-up, DV environment Bring-up, Regressions enabling all features under your care, and Debug of the test failures.
• Track and report DV progress using a variety of metrics, including Bugs and Coverage.

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of industry Instruction Set Architectures, particularly RISC-V
• Deep knowledge of Micro-Processor Verification functions and Architectures, in domains such as: Cache Coherence, Memory ordering and Consistency, Prefetching, Branch Prediction, Renaming, Speculative execution, and Address Translation/Memory Management.
• Knowledge of Random Instruction Sequencing (RIS) and testing a given design, at the Block/Unit-level and Subsystem/Chip-level for proving correctness.
• Experience in leading a small team of Verification engineers performing CPU Verification.
• Advance techniques such as: Formal, Assertions, and Silicon bringup, is helpful.
• In-depth knowledge of Micro-processor functions, Architectures, and Micro-architectures.
• Experience in writing Test plans, portable Testbenches, Transactors, and Assembly code.
• Experience with different Verification Methodologies and Tools such as Simulators, Coverage collection, Gate-level Simulation, Waveform viewers, and Mixed signal Verification.
• Ability to develop and work independently on a Block/Unit of the design.
• A minimum of BS degree in any of: {Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science}.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

EEO Employer

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail [e-mail] or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

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Pay Range And Other Compensation & Benefits

$167,100.00 - $250,700.00

Benefits

• Competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus)
• Highly competitive benefits package designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play

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