System Validation Lead - AI/SoC Emulation Architect

QUALCOMM, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks a highly experienced SVE Content Lead to drive validation strategy and end-to-end system-level validation across emulation and silicon platforms.

You will partner with Architecture, Design, DV, Firmware, and Software teams to ensure comprehensive coverage and scalable validation solutions. The ideal candidate combines strong SoC architecture knowledge, validation expertise, technical leadership, and program management skills to lead geographically distributed

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in SoC validation, bring-up, architecture validation, firmware, or system software.
• Strong understanding of modern SoC architectures including CPUs (ARM architectures), memory subsystems, interconnects and NoC, power management, security and virtualization architectures, peripherals subsystems.
• Proven experience with pre-silicon and post-silicon validation.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across geographically distributed teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive system-level validation strategy for complex SoC programs.
• Develop comprehensive validation plans spanning pre-silicon and post-silicon phases.
• Identify high-risk customer use cases and translate them into executable validation content.
• Define stress, power, performance, scalability, and corner-case validation scenarios.
• Establish platform coverage plans across Veloce, RUMI, FPGA, and Silicon environments.
• Drive coverage closure based on previous program learnings and emerging architectural risks.
• Own end-to-end content strategy, roadmap, execution, readiness reviews, and delivery milestones.
• Drive content architecture and test plan reviews across multiple subsystem domains.
• Ensure content quality, scalability, reusability, and maintainability.
• Lead content stabilization, qualification, and regression activities.
• Drive system-level content releases for HVV, SLT, and production screening environments.
• Partner with Architecture, Design, DV, Firmware, and Software teams to define validation requirements.
• Lead debug of complex silicon, emulation, firmware, and software issues.
• Drive root-cause analysis and corrective action plans for critical product issues.
• Influence future validation methodologies, frameworks, and automation roadmaps.
• Champion AI/GenAI-driven validation methodologies.
• Drive cross-functional execution across multiple global sites.
• Coordinate content scrums, program reviews, readiness assessments, and milestone tracking.
• Manage external dependencies and risk mitigation plans.
• Partner with Emulation, System Debug, and Execution teams to drive program success.
• Provide regular executive-level status updates and technical reviews.
• Mentor senior engineers and future technical leaders.
• Build high-performing global content teams.
• Drive engineering excellence, execution rigor, and scalable operating models.
• Influence resourcing, organizational planning, and capability development efforts.

Skills

System Validation

SoC Validation

Technical Leadership

Program Management

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Emulation Environments

Automation Frameworks

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks a highly experienced SVE Content Lead to drive validation strategy and end-to-end system-level validation across emulation and silicon platforms.

You will partner with Architecture, Design, DV, Firmware, and Software teams to ensure comprehensive coverage and scalable validation solutions. The ideal candidate combines strong SoC architecture knowledge, validation expertise, technical leadership, and program management skills to lead geographically distributed