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CPU Post-Silicon Validation Engineer - Multiple Levels

$148.3k - $250.7k

Qualcomm

Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

General Summary:

As a "CPU Silicon Bring up and Validation Engineer" you would be part of the CPU Silicon Bringup Team, within the CPU team.


The charter for CPU Silicon Bringup team would be to prepare for and support bring up of every SoC using the Custom CPUs - from first Silicon through to productization.


  • Roles and Responsibilities:
    • Work with CPU design and verification teams to develop CPU bring up and validation test plans.
    • Prepare for CPU bring up through pre-work on emulation and FPGA platforms.
    • Work with SOC bring up teams, software teams to plan CPU bring up.
    • Triage and debug failures on Silicon.
    • Develop test contents and testing strategies to assist validation of CPU on silicon.
    • Work with CPU verification teams to reproduce silicon fails on emulators and FPGAs.
    • Work with design team to suggest, architect new debug features to improve future CPU bringup's.
  • Minimum Requirements:
    • BA/BS degree in CS/EE with 5+ years' experience.
    • 3+ Experience in Silicon Validation and bring up.
    • Implementation of assembly, C/C++ language embedded firmware
    • Experience with software tool chain including assemblers, C compilers, Makefiles, and source code control tools.
  • Preferred Requirements:
    • Strong understanding of micro-processor architecture.
    • Strong understanding of power management, physical design concepts.
    • Experience in Silicon bring up and validation of CPU features.
    • Experience in debug of functional, power, performance, physical design issues, speed path debug on silicon.
    • Experience in CPU design and verification.
    • Experience in Test development for validation of CPU features on Silicon.
    • Experience in development of test vectors for tester bring up.


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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :
$148,300.00 - $250,700.00

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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