SoC Validation & Lab Automation Engineer

QUALCOMM, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 56,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA is seeking a hands-on Lab Support and Software Automation Engineer to provide end-to-end support for a fast-paced post-silicon validation environment.

You will design, deploy, and maintain software solutions, automate validation workflows, and analyze data to improve throughput and reliability. The role combines software development with lab operations, supporting development boards, hardware, and infra, and coordinating with validation engineers, IT,

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python and application development.
• Experience developing software automation, workflow tools, test infrastructure, data-processing solutions, or full-stack applications.
• Experience with databases and data access using SQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, or comparable technologies.
• Working knowledge of source control, CI/CD, unit testing, regression testing, debugging, and software-release practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, maintain, and support software solutions that automate and scale post-silicon validation and integration activities.
• Develop Software / full-stack applications for validation workflows, test execution, orchestration, data collection, analytics, reporting, scheduling, dashboards, and infrastructure automation.
• Implement automation using Python and other software technologies such as Flask, C#, or equivalent technologies based on project needs.
• Partner with validation engineers to understand use cases, convert repetitive manual activities into reliable automation, and improve validation throughput, repeatability, and traceability.
• Develop and maintain databases and data pipelines using SQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Splunk, or similar data platforms.
• Develop solutions supporting silicon parametric-data collection and analysis, high-volume regression, stress testing, process-voltage-temperature variation, and operational reporting.
• Troubleshoot application, script, database, server, network, lab-infrastructure, software, and hardware issues that affect validation workflows.
• Support application deployments, servers, lab IT infrastructure, scheduling services, dashboards, and related development and production environments.
• Apply sound software-engineering practices, including modular design, code review, version control, testing, logging, error handling, documentation, maintainability, and secure development practices.
• Contribute to best practices such as CI/CD pipelines, source-control workflows, unit tests, regression tests, robust deployment procedures, and release processes.
• Create and maintain software requirements, architecture notes, code documentation, deployment instructions, user guides, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
• Evaluate and apply statistical analysis, machine learning, generative AI, agentic AI, or related technologies where they provide practical value to validation automation or data analysis.

Skills

Python

Data analysis

Full-stack development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Electrical Engineering

Tools

Flask

Django

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

SQL

NoSQL

Power BI

Jenkins

Splunk

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA is seeking a hands-on Lab Support and Software Automation Engineer to provide end-to-end support for a fast-paced post-silicon validation environment.

You will design, deploy, and maintain software solutions, automate validation workflows, and analyze data to improve throughput and reliability. The role combines software development with lab operations, supporting development boards, hardware, and infra, and coordinating with validation engineers, IT,