CPU Emulation Engineer

Qualcomm • Santa Clara, CA

384d • $167,100 - $250,700

About The Position

The CPU Emulation Engineer will be a key member of the CPU verification team at Qualcomm, responsible for delivering emulation-based solutions for high-performance CPUs. This role involves close collaboration with various CPU disciplines to ensure effective verification and validation processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• OR PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of experience with emulation platforms - Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, FPGAs.
• Experience with synthesizing and optimizing designs and verification components developed in synthesizable Verilog.
• Experience with C/C++ DPI transactors and monitors.
• Experience in scripting using Perl, Python or shell scripts.
• Experience with packaging workloads for cloud.
• Experience with debugging ARM CPU based designs.
• Knowledge on ARM ISA and programmers' model is a plus.
• Experience with Linux boot and firmware aspects is a plus.
• Experience with CPU architecture and micro-architecture is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with CPU RTL, performance, verification and SW teams to deliver emulation-based solutions.
• Architect and develop test bench infrastructure in C/C++ and Systemverilog for enabling CPU emulation across different platforms.
• Develop verification methodology, ensuring scalable and portable environment across simulation and emulation.
• Debug emulation performance and area issues to efficiently use emulation resources.
• Develop environment to run verification test cases, OS boot, performance benchmarks and other vectors.
• Develop debugging methodology to enable efficient debug and root causing of CPU functional and performance issues.
• Develop and maintain emulation environment to collect metrics related to emulation environment.
• Work closely with emulation CAD team to resolve infrastructure issues and ensure productivity on emulation models.
• Execute verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring-up, regression enabling for all features under your care, debug of the test failures.

Benefits

• Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
• Opportunity for annual RSU grants
• Comprehensive benefits package designed to support success at work, at home, and at play.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree