HBM System Validation Lead for AI Compute & Data Center

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Memory System Validation lead to define and execute validation strategies for high-bandwidth memory subsystems within AI compute platforms.

You will lead pre-silicon and post-silicon validation of next-generation stacked memory, drive memory bring-up, performance characterization, stress validation, and debug across product lifecycles. Deep expertise in DDR/HBM, memory controllers, PHYs, and system-level debug is required, with collaboration across

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in memory validation, silicon validation, or platform bring-up.
• Strong understanding of: DDR4/DDR5/LPDDR5/LPDDR6 architectures; HBM technologies; Memory controllers; PHY architectures; Cache and coherency systems.
• Experience with: Pre-silicon validation; FPGA platforms; Post-silicon bring-up.
• Strong debugging skills using: Logic analyzers; Protocol analyzers; Performance counters; Firmware traces.
• Programming experience in Python, C/C++.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end HBM validation strategy from emulation through production silicon.
• Develop comprehensive validation plans covering memory initialization, training flows, power-state transitions, reliability testing, error recovery mechanisms, and manufacturing diagnostics.
• Drive Pre-silicon memory bring-up and first-silicon bring-up with root-cause analysis of failures.
• Validate interaction between HBM, AI accelerators, compute fabrics, cache hierarchy, and NoC infrastructure; develop stress scenarios for real-world AI workloads.
• Lead complex silicon debug efforts; analyze crashes, hangs, data corruption, training failures, and performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with memory architecture, PHY, firmware, package and SI/PI teams, and AI software teams.
• Develop scalable automation frameworks for memory validation; build telemetry and performance-monitoring tools; leverage AI-assisted validation.

Skills

Memory validation

DDR4/5/LPDDR5/LPDDR6

HBM technologies

Memory controllers

PHY architectures

Pre/post-silicon validation

Python/C++

Debugging tools

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Tools

FPGA platforms

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Memory System Validation lead to define and execute validation strategies for high-bandwidth memory subsystems within AI compute platforms.

You will lead pre-silicon and post-silicon validation of next-generation stacked memory, drive memory bring-up, performance characterization, stress validation, and debug across product lifecycles. Deep expertise in DDR/HBM, memory controllers, PHYs, and system-level debug is required, with collaboration across