Lead CPU Validation and Debug Engineer

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm's Silicon Validation team is part of the central SoC digital hardware organization responsible for the overall quality of the SoC silicon. The validation team works closely with architects, designers, verification engineers, software engineers, and customers. The team is currently seeking candidate for Post-silicon and Emulation CPU Validation and Debug Engineer.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR
Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Experience :

5 - 8 Years of relevant experience

with System level exposure on ARM SOC

Mandatory Skills:

Good understanding of processor architecture, Multicore/Multiprocessor with SMP/heterogenous cores.

Good understanding on Cache hierarchy, coherency, and snoop concepts

Good Understanding of CPU Dynamic Frequency and Voltage Switching, Low Power Modes

C language expertise for low level programming, Assembly language for any processor.

Exposure to CPU Architecture based on ARM or x86.

Exposure to SoC architecture paradigms- interconnects, power management.

Desired Skills

Hands on experience On Linux operating system, Kernel debuggers, Kernel and Linux Device drivers

Exposure to Memory architecture, through with Weakly ordered memory model and barriers concepts

RISC-V architectural knowledge would be an added plus.

Exposure to SoC architecture paradigms- interconnects, power management.

Exposure to working on emulation/pre-si environment is added advantage.

Hands on experience with JTAG based debuggers.

Bring-up of hardware-software solution on emulation platforms and on fresh SOC designs.

ASIC digital design fundamentals and methodology would be an added advantage.

Knowledge of Linux kernel internals (process scheduler, memory management, concurrency / synchronization, memory allocation, file systems) and profiling

Responsibilities

Create the Complex Test content scenarios in the Baremetal/Linux OS world in the process scheduler, memory management, concurrency / synchronization, memory allocation, file systems

Able to understand various hardware modules constituting CPU sub-system and its interfaces.

Ability to work with hardware design team to develop low level drivers for early enablement.

Chalk out hardware functional validation plan, develop test bench and execute during pre and post silicon SOC bring up phases to expose HW issues.

Excellent communication skills and ability to work with diverse teams to drive HW debugs to conclusion.

Use silicon debug hooks to measure power/performance/coverage and other KPI metrics

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