Senior Emulation & Debug Engineer - FPGA/SoC

Qualcomm; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer to advance emulation and pre-silicon prototyping for latest SoC designs in Santa Clara. You will work across FPGA platforms, emulation tools, and system-level debug to enable robust silicon bring-up.

The role requires strong Verilog/SystemVerilog, C, and Python skills, plus FPGA/Xilinx/Intel expertise and collaboration across sites. Qualified candidates will contribute to pre-silicon enablement and debugging.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Emulation Platforms: FPGA prototyping, emulation tools, system debug.
• SoC functionality: CPU/DSP cores, multimedia, IO, peripherals, DDR, modem, bus protocols.

Skills

Emulation platforms

FPGA prototyping

SystemVerilog

Verilog

C programming

Python

TCL

JTAG debugging

Kernel debugging

SoC architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science/Engineering

Master's degree in Science/Engineering

PhD in Science/Engineering

Tools

Synthesis

Place and Route

Constraints

Clocking

Timing Closure

Xilinx FPGAs

Intel FPGAs

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer to advance emulation and pre-silicon prototyping for latest SoC designs in Santa Clara. You will work across FPGA platforms, emulation tools, and system-level debug to enable robust silicon bring-up.

The role requires strong Verilog/SystemVerilog, C, and Python skills, plus FPGA/Xilinx/Intel expertise and collaboration across sites. Qualified candidates will contribute to pre-silicon enablement and debugging.