GPU Design Verification Engineer

MaC VC; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 254,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a GPU verification engineer to architect, design, implement and verify the structure and performance of GPU hardware, drivers, features, applications and tools.

You will create and maintain verification test benches (SystemVerilog/UVM), collaborate with Architecture, Software, Firmware and Design teams, and contribute to pre- and post-silicon validation to meet performance and power goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 4+ years in software/hardware engineering or related field.
• Experience with SystemVerilog, UVM, Verilog or VHDL for verification.
• Strong C/C++ skills and scripting.
• GPU verification experience is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Applies graphics knowledge to architect, design, implement and verify GPU hardware, drivers, features, applications and tools.
• Creates and maintains verification test benches and environments in SystemVerilog/UVM.
• Collaborates with Architecture, Software, Firmware, Design, Modeling, Emulation and Post-silicon validation teams to define and develop test methodology and content.
• Participates in GPU architecture and micro-architecture reviews.
• Collects, organizes and executes system-level test content including benchmarks and standards compliance testsuites.

Skills

SystemVerilog

UVM

Verilog

VHDL

C/C++

GPU verification

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field

Master's degree or PhD in related field

Tools

SystemVerilog/UVM frameworks

Emulation platforms (Veloce, Palladium, Zebu)

Python scripting

Job description

Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > GPU ASICS Engineering

General Summary

Architects, designs, implements, verifies, and optimizes performance and power of GPU cores. Responsible for verification of Graphics IP , and performing pre- and post-silicon verification to verify correctness and ensure performance and power goals are met.

The Responsibilities Of This Role Include

• Owning and executing on key independent tasks towards program requirements
• Using verbal and written communication skills to convey basic, routine factual information about day-to-day activities to others who are fully knowledgeable in the subject area.
• Working within prescribed timeline requirements and resource constraints
• Applying independent creative thought to troubleshoot technical problems or deal with novel circumstances.
• Research through available resources and engagement with various inter-disciplinary teams
• Using deductive problem solving to solve moderately complex problems; most problems have defined processes of diagnosis/detection; some limited data analysis may be required.

Principal Duties And Responsibilities

• Applies Graphics knowledge and experience to architect, design, implement, and verify the structure and performance of GPU hardware, drivers, features, applications, and tools.
• Creates and maintains verification test benches and environments in System Verilog/UVM
• Create and leverage advanced testing frameworks to generate and recreate real-world system integration conditions
• Collaborates with Architecture, Software , Firmware, Design , Modeling, Emulation and Post-silicon validation teams to define and develop test methodology and content
• Participate in GPU architecture, micro-architecture reviews
• Collect, organize and execute various forms of system level test content including directed testcases, gaming benchmarks, standards compliance testsuites, and system level scenarios
• Build automation for continue integration and testing based on latest GPU IP
• Help collect and analyze test results using straightforward statistics and data predictions to track benchmarks and identify issues
• Works with team members to understand and align on narrow scope of feature development and meet targets.
• Write technical documentation and feature descriptions for straightforward projects under the direction of a supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications

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

OR

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

OR

PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience
• Verification skills: Test planning, Scripting, Simulation, problem solving and debug.
• System Verilog, UVM, Verilog or VHDL, C/C++ skills required.
• Constrained random, Functional Coverage development, design debug experience required.
• Exposure to Emulation/Prototyping Platforms (Veloce, Palladium, Zebu, FPGA)
• Master's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 2+ years relevant GPU experience (either external or internal).

Preferred Skills

• Experience in GPU based verification
• Experience in system or sub-system level verification
• Concurrency, Preemption, Stress testing frameworks
• Testbench Architecture and Implementation
• GFX API Exposure : Vulkan/DX11/DX12 Exposure
• Scripting and automation skills (Python, Make, Airflow etc)
• Embedded FW Development and Debugging
• Benchmarking and Performance Analysis
• Windows and/or Linux OS Kernel Architecture
• C/C++, GNU Toolchain, Visual Studio
• Formal verification - FPV and DPV experience is a plus
• Experience with emulation/prototyping/hybrid build and execution flows (Veloce, Palladium, Zebu, Protium, HAPS, qemu)
• Development of synthesizable transactors, monitors, scoreboards for emulation platforms
• Embedded FW and/or Kernel level development and debugging skills (C/C++, Makefile, gdb, uboot, uefi, kernel-mode drivers)

This role is available in multiple locations at different levels.

The compensation range will be determined upon the offer location and title.

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Pay Range And Other Compensation & Benefits

$169,500.00 - $254,300.00

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