Job Description

Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > RFIC Design

General Summary:

Qualcomm’s Connectivity functional verification team is looking for an enthusiastic new team member to participate in the pre-silicon verification and enable post silicon bring up of high performance RFICs for WIFI, BT, UWB, FM, GNSS, and IOT applications.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 3+ years of experience with designing RF/Analog circuits for wireless products (e.g., LNA's, PLL's) and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.

• 2+ years of academic or professional experience using two or more of the following software: CADENCE, Virtuoso, ADS.

Responsibilities include:

• Based on analog circuit design, developing, and debugging behavioral models for event driven simulation, as well as models for mixed signal simulation.
• Based on radio system design and interface to SoC, developing, and debugging verification plans for radio and IP modules.
• Developing and maintaining self-checking test benches.
• Define and develop test coverages and test sequences for design verification
• Maintaining scripts that streamline release of netlists and generation of programming instructions.
• Diagnosing failed tests.
• Tracking verification results, logging bugs, resolve, and close bugs with stakeholders.
• Participate in methodology development.

Skills/Experience:

• Solid understanding of RF-analog circuit design
• Solid understanding of digital logic design
• Solid knowledge of behavioral modeling
• Working knowledge of Cadence’s AMS designers/XCelium (setup, netlisting, error messages…).
• Proficient at System Verilog.
• Proficient at scripting, preferably with Python, Perl, C-Shell and Cadence SKILL
• Familiarity with serial bus interfaces, register controllers, and state machines.
• Familiarity with RF transceiver architectures, phase lock loops (PLLs), analog-to-digital converters, and digital-to-analog converters (ADCs and DACs) would be extremely helpful.
• Familiarity with verification methodologies like UVM are a plus.
• Experience in digital design or functional verification, preferably of RF or mixed signal chips.
• Knowledge of AI/ML fundamental and implementation.

Education:

• A master’s degree, or higher, in EE, ECE and/or computer science, or equivalent experience is preferred

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