Job Description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

General Summary:

As a Design Verification Engineer, you will work with Chip Architects to validate the concepts of CPU and SOC level micro-architectures. You will work on a selected part of the CPU Design Verification to ensure that it functions to the standards of being launch ready for the end Product.

Role and Responsibilities

• Work with CPU and SOC Architects to understand the concepts and high-level system requirements.

• Develop detailed Test and Coverage plans based on the Architecture and Micro-architecture.

• Develop Verification Methodology, ensuring scalability and portability across environments.

• Develop Verification environment, including all the respective components such as Stimulus, Checkers, Assertions, Trackers, and Coverage.

• Develop Verification Plans and Testbenches for your functional domain. 

• Execute Verification Plans, including Design Bring-up, DV environment Bring-up, Regressions enabling all features under your care, and Debug of the test failures.

• Track and report DV progress using a variety of metrics, including Bugs and Coverage.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of Micro-Processor Verification functions and Architectures, in domains such as: Cache Coherence, Memory ordering and Consistency, Prefetching, Branch Prediction, Renaming, Speculative execution, and Address Translation/Memory Management.

• Knowledge of Random Instruction Sequencing (RIS) and testing a given design, at the Block/Unit-level and Subsystem/Chip-level for proving correctness.

• Experience in leading a small team of Verification engineers performing CPU Verification.

• Advance techniques such as: Formal, Assertions, and Silicon bringup, is helpful.

• In-depth knowledge of Micro-processor functions, Architectures, and Micro-architectures.

• Experience in writing Test plans, portable Testbenches, Transactors, and Assembly code.

• Experience with different Verification Methodologies and Tools such as Simulators, Coverage collection, Gate-level Simulation, Waveform viewers, and Mixed signal Verification.

• Ability to develop and work independently on a Block/Unit of the design.

• A minimum of BS degree in any of: {Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science}.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$139,000.00 - $234,500.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.  We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).  In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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