Senior Pre/Post Silicon Validation Engineer

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

Qualcomm's Modem Validation Team is part of the central SoC digital hardware organization responsible for the overall quality of the SoC & Modem silicon. The Validation team works closely with architects, designers, verification engineers, software engineers, and customers. The team is currently seeking a strong candidate to create content to enable the testing of the cellular modem and RF subsystem.

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.

The position requires that the candidate is very familiar with digital communication principles and experienced with C, Python and C++ programming , that the candidate understand the embedded environment and the constraints that this type of environment brings and preferably that the candidate has a working knowledge of modem technologies and the general flow of data through the modem. The candidate should also be familiar with some analog debugging, some knowledge of RF and test equipment related to this field .

The technical disciplines, languages and methodologies included in this team are:

Systems Debug (Emulation, SoC Architectures, Modem architecture HW Platforms & firmware, Cellular, Logic Analyzers, JTAG)

Modem VI Content Developer ( C, Assembly, Python, Scripting for Lauterbach trace32 , Matlab Subsystems:CPU Core, Modem , Digital Modem RF)

Required Qualifications:

â"‹Candidate will have a

minimum of 3-5 years of experience working in emulation and silicon environments. (A must)

Candidates are expected to have experience in:

Understanding of digital communication principles

Emulation environments for development and debug

Debugging low level software and hardware issues

Implementing drivers and test content

Debug tools including JTAG and kernel debuggers

CPU, Modem and SoC architectures

Basic understanding of power and performance

Good experience programming in C, python, C++

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with post-silicon enabling and bring-up

Knowledge of cellular technologies preferred, UMTS, LTE etc

Validation and debug of mixed analog and digital circuits

Experience with at least one of:Python, C, C++, or Lauterbach CMM scripts

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Frequently transports between offices, buildings, and campuses up to ½ mile.

Frequently transports and installs equipment up to 5 lbs.

Performs required tasks at various heights (e.g., standing or sitting).

Monitors and utilizes computers and test equipment for more than 6 hours a day.

Continuous communication which includes the comprehension of information with colleagues, customers, and vendors both in person and remotely.

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