CPU Verification Engineer (RISC-V)

Qualcomm; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 167,100 - 250,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

RSU grants

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in Wilmington, DE is seeking a Design Verification Engineer to validate CPU and SOC micro-architectures with chip architects and ensure launch readiness for the end product.

You will develop test plans, verification environments, and testbenches, execute plans, debug failures, and report progress with metrics while collaborating across CPU and SOC teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 4+ years of hardware/software/related experience.
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 3+ years of related experience.
• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 2+ years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Work with CPU and SOC Architects to understand concepts and high-level system requirements.
• Develop detailed Test and Coverage plans based on Architecture and Micro-architecture.
• Develop Verification Methodology, ensuring scalability and portability across environments.
• Develop Verification environment, including 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, Regression enabling all features, and debugging test failures.
• Track and report DV progress using Bugs and Coverage metrics.

Skills

RISC-V ISA

CPU verification

Formal verification

Testbench development

Verification methodology

Team leadership

Assembly coding

Education

BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS

MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS

PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS

Tools

Simulators

Waveform viewers

Gate-level simulation

Transactors

ASIC verification tools

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

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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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