Senior SoC Debug Engineer: Platform Bring-Up & RTL Expert

Qualcomm; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA seeks a Senior SoC Debug Engineer to advance silicon validation for server, compute, and mobile chipsets.

You will lead debugging from pre-Si to post-Si and collaborate with architects, designers, verification, and customers to ensure quality. This role emphasizes hands-on debugging with JTAG, RTL analysis, lab instruments, and script-based troubleshooting, plus developing strategies to triage failures quickly and improve reliability.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience with pre-Si and post-silicon enabling, bring-up, analyze failures at the embedded platform level.
• RTL inspection and basic RTL understanding.
• Experience solving complex debug in pre-Si and post-Si phases.
• Lead efforts for faster debug at platform level including isolating failing components.
• Create debug strategies and plans for partners to triage failures (PVT/marginality).
• SysDebug lead roles to drive root cause.
• Debugging low level software and hardware issues.
• Debug tools including JTAG.
• Using Lab Equipment (Logic Analyzer, Scope, Signal Generator).

Responsibilities

• Lead Bring up, debug, analyze failures at the embedded platform level in both pre-Si and post-Si phase.
• RTL inspection and dive in required to root cause pre-si debug and JTAG and Si exposure to root cause post-si issues.
• Lead on initiatives for faster debug at the platform level including isolating failing components of a system.
• Creating and leading debug strategies and plans for partners to more rapidly triage failures to isolate specific components including PVT and marginality issues.
• Perform real-time debugging and troubleshooting of server hardware, including motherboards, processors, memory, storage devices, power supplies, and networking components.
• Investigate manufacturing defects, determine root causes, and implement corrective actions to improve product quality and reliability

Skills

C

Assembly

Python

Perl

RTL debugging

JTAG

System debugging

Lab equipment

Education

Master's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Science/Engineering

PhD in Engineering

Tools

JTAG

Logic Analyzer

Oscilloscope

Signal Generator

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA seeks a Senior SoC Debug Engineer to advance silicon validation for server, compute, and mobile chipsets.

You will lead debugging from pre-Si to post-Si and collaborate with architects, designers, verification, and customers to ensure quality. This role emphasizes hands-on debugging with JTAG, RTL analysis, lab instruments, and script-based troubleshooting, plus developing strategies to triage failures quickly and improve reliability.