Senior SoC Debug Engineer

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

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA seeks a Senior SoC Debug Engineer to join the Silicon Validation team. You will bring up and debug embedded platforms, analyze failures across pre-Si and post-Si stages, and develop automation to accelerate debugging workflows.

Responsibilities include defining debug strategies for partners, isolating failing components such as PVT issues, and advancing AI-assisted debugging techniques to triage complex failures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Bring up, debug, analyze failures at the embedded platform level in pre-Si and post-Si phases.
• Support, develop, and implement solutions for faster debug at the platform level including isolating failing components of a system.
• Creating debug strategies and plans for partners to rapidly triage failures to isolate specific components including PVT and marginality issues.
• Gen AI automation and enablement for automating the Debug flow.

Skills

RTL inspection

Gen AI for debugging automation

Platform bring-up and failure analysis

Debugging hardware issues

Debugging low-level software

Education

Bachelor's, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering Preferred

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

JTAG

Logic Analyzer

Oscilloscope

Signal Generator

Job description

Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary

Qualcomm's Silicon Validation team is part of the central SoC digital hardware organization responsible for the overall quality of the SoC silicon. The validation team works closely with architects, designers, verification engineers, software engineers, and customers. We are currently seeking a candidate for the position of Senior SoC Debug Engineer.

In this role, the candidate will support three critical roles:

Key Responsibilities

In this role, the candidate will support three critical roles:

• Bring up, debug, analyze failures at the embedded platform level in both pre-Si and post-Si phase


• Support, develop, and implement solutions for faster debug at the platform level including isolating failing components of a system


• Creating debug strategies and plans for partners to more rapidly triage failures to isolate specific components including PVT and marginality issues.


• Gen AI automation and enablement for automating the Debug flow

Minimum Requirements

• 5 to 8 years of experience with pre-si and post-silicon enabling, bring-up, analyze failures at the embedded platform level


• RTL inspection and understanding of basic RTL


• Gen AI knowledge and experience for automating the Debug flow


• Support, develop, and implement solutions for faster debug at the platform level including isolating failing components of a system


• Creating debug strategies and plans for partners to more rapidly triage failures to isolate specific components including PVT and marginality issues


• Debugging low level software and hardware issues


• Debug tools including JTAG


• Using Lab Equipment (Logic Analyzer, Scope, Signal Generator, etc.)

Educational Requirements

Bachelor's, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering Preferred:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

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

OR

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

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Pay Range And Other Compensation & Benefits

• $121,800.00 - $182,600.00


• 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.

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