Emulation Engineer - RISC -V

Qualcomm • Cupertino, CA

7d • $167,100 - $250,700 • Onsite

About The Position

You will work cross-functionally across all pre-silicon disciplines — architecture, microarchitecture, design, design verification, software, performance, and emulation/prototyping — communicating clearly across teams and geographies to develop, debug, and maintain complex system-level hybrid execution environments. These environments enable pre-silicon bring-up of system software and performance benchmarking workloads.

Requirements

• 8+ years of industry experience
• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in a relevant engineering field
• Strong domain knowledge of computer architecture
• Ability to work independently and across geographies
• Hands-on experience with commercial emulation platforms (Palladium, Mentor Veloce) and/or prototyping platforms (Protium, Primo, HAPS)
• Expertise in transactor development, virtual prototyping, and advanced verification techniques (assertions, coverage, UPF)
• Solid understanding of modern SystemVerilog for design and verification
• Experience isolating and reproducing silicon bugs in emulation
• Strong software development in compiled (C/C++) and interpreted (Python, Tcl) languages
• Proven hardware/software co-debug skills
• Working knowledge of firmware, OS (Linux, RTOS), and hypervisor (Xen, KVM) stacks for embedded and server applications
• Familiarity with CPU architectures (RISC-V, x86, ARMv8), coherent communication protocols, and standard IO interfaces
• Experience building and maintaining production infrastructure automation, including execution pipelines and observability and reporting frameworks
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop, debug, and maintain complex system-level hybrid execution environments.
• Enable pre-silicon bring-up of system software and performance benchmarking workloads.
• Communicate clearly across teams and geographies.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior