SoC Design, Validation & Debug Engineer (FPGA/Emulation)

Socket.dev; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in the San Diego area is seeking highly motivated engineers to join the SoC design, validation, debug, FPGA prototyping, and emulation teams.

You will work on industry-leading SoCs and development platforms, collaborating closely with architects, RTL designers, verification engineers, and software teams to advance silicon quality and platform bring-up. Candidates should have a strong foundation in embedded software and hardware, experience with Linux, and familiarity

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance solutions supporting SoC design, validation, debug, FPGA prototyping, and emulation environments.
• Design, implement, validate, and debug hardware and software components used in advanced SoC development platforms.
• Perform pre-silicon and post-silicon bring-up, failure analysis, root-cause investigation, and performance characterization.
• Develop automation, infrastructure, and tooling using modern programming languages and scripting environments.
• Support debugging of low-level hardware and software issues across complex SoC platforms.
• Analyze system performance, power, functionality, reliability, and timing across multiple subsystems.
• Collaborate with global engineering teams, technology partners, and tool vendors to improve methodologies, workflows, and product quality.
• Leverage automation and AI technologies to improve engineering productivity and debug efficiency.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Tcl

Perl

Linux / Embedded Linux

Automation & Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

JTAG Debug

Git

JIRA

CI/CD Automation Flows

Simulation/Emulation/Prototyping Tools

Linux Development Environments

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in the San Diego area is seeking highly motivated engineers to join the SoC design, validation, debug, FPGA prototyping, and emulation teams.

You will work on industry-leading SoCs and development platforms, collaborating closely with architects, RTL designers, verification engineers, and software teams to advance silicon quality and platform bring-up. Candidates should have a strong foundation in embedded software and hardware, experience with Linux, and familiarity