SoC Design & Validation Engineer — Debug, FPGA & Emulation

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego seeks engineers to join SoC design, validation, debug, and emulation teams. You will work across architectures, CAD tools, and development platforms to deliver industry-leading silicon and software solutions.

Collaborate with architects, RTL designers, software teams, and validation to accelerate bring-up, characterize performance, and improve product quality using automation and AI-enabled workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field with strong fundamentals.
• Experience in ASIC/SoC design, hardware or system debug, or validation.
• Familiarity with Linux, SOC architectures, and RTL methods.
• Strong analytical and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance solutions for SoC design, validation, debug, FPGA prototyping, and emulation.
• Design, implement, validate, and debug hardware and software components for advanced platforms.
• Perform pre- and post-silicon bring-up, failure analysis, root-cause investigations, and characterization.
• Develop automation, infrastructure, and tooling using modern languages and scripting.
• Support debugging of low-level issues across complex SoC platforms.
• Analyze system performance, power, reliability, and timing across subsystems.
• Collaborate with global teams and tool vendors to improve processes and quality.
• Leverage AI-driven validation to improve productivity and debugging efficiency.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Linux / Embedded Linux

Debugging

Automation

Software Design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering or related

Master's or PhD in Computer/Electrical Engineering or related

Tools

Git

JIRA

CI/CD Automation

Simulation, Emulation, Prototyping Tools

Linux Development Environments

JTAG Debug

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego seeks engineers to join SoC design, validation, debug, and emulation teams. You will work across architectures, CAD tools, and development platforms to deliver industry-leading silicon and software solutions.

Collaborate with architects, RTL designers, software teams, and validation to accelerate bring-up, characterize performance, and improve product quality using automation and AI-enabled workflows.