Emulation Performance/Debug Engineer

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks an experienced engineer for the Emulation Team within the Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering.

You will contribute to pre-silicon SoC platforms, working with FPGA prototyping, emulation tools, and debug workflows across CPU/DSP cores, multimedia blocks, and NoC. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration with architects, designers, verification and software teams, with required expertise in Verilog/SystemVerilog, C, Python/TCL, and FPGA/SoC experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, or related field with 2+ years ASIC design/verification experience.
• Master’s degree with 1+ year ASIC experience.
• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support pre-silicon SoC platforms and emulation flows.
• Collaborate with architects, designers, verification engineers, and software teams.
• Debug low-level software and hardware issues on emulation platforms.

Skills

Emulation platforms

Verilog/SystemVerilog

C programming

Python

TCL

FPGA prototyping

JTAG debugging

SystemDebug

SoC architectures

cross-site collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

Xilinx FPGAs

Intel FPGAs

Synthesis

Place and Route

Timing Closure

JTAG

Job description

Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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.

Emulation Team Responsibilities

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

• 5+ 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.
• Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits

$121,800.00 - $182,600.00. The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play.