System Soc/silicon Validation

Company Qualcomm India Private LimitedJob Area Engineering Group Engineering Group Hardware EngineeringGeneral 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 Minimum Qualifications Bachelor s degree in Computer Science Electrical Electronics Engineering Engineering or related field and 6 years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience OR Master s degree in Computer Science Electrical Electronics Engineering Engineering or related field and 5 years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience OR PhD in Computer Science Electrical Electronics Engineering Engineering or related field and 4 years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience Qualcomm s SoC Validation Team SVE - System SOC silicon Validation 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 We are looking for self-motivated engineers who will be part of bare-metal SoC validation team and will have the following responsibilities ResponsibilitiesDesign develop debug system IP validation framework to be used in bare-metal and light-weight-RTOS environment for SoC validation in one of the areas mentioned belowUnderstand the SoC architecture new features and prepare test planDevelop port enhance system validation content based on system level use cases low power use cases find HW bugs and root cause themInterface with Design Verification Software Customer Engineering teams for test plan and debugsInterface with various IP validation team and cross functional teams Design Verification SW for test plan creation and debug complex issuesUse silicon debug hooks to measure power performance coverage and other KPI metricsManage a team of silicon validation team membersMinimum Qualification Bachelor s Masters degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering Computer Science or related field11 years of working experience in SOC validation Candidates with less experience with good academics from premier institutes can also be considered Mandatory Skills Good knowledge and understanding of Embedded SW architecture and development in C C AssemblyC language expertise for low level programming assembly language for any processor C-assembly interworkingHands on end to end experience in one or more of the IP validation flow from architecture review testplan creation testcases development execution debugs CPUSS DDRSS Multimedia Camera Video Display GPU blocksGood Experience in working closely with Design Verification Arch Customer Engineering teams for IP SOC validation planning execution and debugsGood knowledge of ARM X86 PowerPC CPU architecture Interrupt handling Cache coherency IO CoherencyGood knowledge of SoC architecture having Multicore Multiprocessor with SMP heterogenous cores memory management CPU conceptsHaving experience of managing team members as people managerCompiler Linker Proficient in using compilers and linkers such as GCC CLANG RVDS LLVM Experience in optimizing code and resolving linker issues to ensure efficient and error free buildsExperience in using JTAG interfaces and tools for debugging SOC silicon design issuesScripting languages such as Python shell scripting etc Desired SkillsExposure to SoC architecture paradigms interconnects power management emulation pre-Si environmentExposure to working on emulation pre-si environment is added advantageExperience working with boot code for ARM processorsKnowledge of Operating systems RTOS Linux kernel internals multithreading scheduling policies locking mechanism Virtual memory MMU paging etcSoftware development for silicon enablement silicon validation design issue debugsBoard Bring-up Bring-up of hardware-software solution on FPGA emulation platforms and on fresh SOC designsExposure to build automation Experience with build automations tools such as Jenkins and experience in creating automated build pipelines to stream line the development processExposure to Regression testing Understanding of the regression testing methodologies and tools Ability to design implement and execute comprehensive regression test suites to ensure software quality and stabilityCode Reviews Ability to conduct thorough and constructive code reviews to maintain code quality ensure best practices and identify the areas of 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