GPU Design Verification Engineer

Qualcomm•San Diego, CA

40d

About The Position

Architects, designs, implements, verifies, and optimizes performance and power of GPU cores. Responsible for verification of Graphics IP , and performing pre- and post-silicon verification to verify correctness and ensure performance and power goals are met. The responsibilities of this role include: Owning and executing on key independent tasks towards program requirements Using verbal and written communication skills to convey basic, routine factual information about day-to-day activities to others who are fully knowledgeable in the subject area. Working within prescribed timeline requirements and resource constraints Applying independent creative thought to troubleshoot technical problems or deal with novel circumstances. Research through available resources and engagement with various inter-disciplinary teams Using deductive problem solving to solve moderately complex problems; most problems have defined processes of diagnosis/detection; some limited data analysis may be required.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

5+ years Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience
Verification skills: Test planning, Scripting, Simulation, problem solving and debug.
System Verilog, UVM, Verilog or VHDL, C/C++ skills required.
Constrained random, Functional Coverage development, design debug experience required.
Exposure to Emulation/Prototyping Platforms (Veloce, Palladium, Zebu, FPGA)
Master's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
2+ years relevant GPU experience (either external or internal).
Experience in GPU based verification
Experience in system or sub-system level verification
Concurrency, Preemption, Stress testing frameworks
Testbench Architecture and Implementation
GFX API Exposure : Vulkan/DX11/DX12 Exposure
Scripting and automation skills (Python, Make, Airflow etc)
Embedded FW Development and Debugging
Benchmarking and Performance Analysis
Windows and/or Linux OS Kernel Architecture
C/C++, GNU Toolchain, Visual Studio
Formal verification - FPV and DPV experience is a plus
Experience with emulation/prototyping/hybrid build and execution flows (Veloce, Palladium, Zebu, Protium, HAPS, qemu)
Development of synthesizable transactors, monitors, scoreboards for emulation platforms
Embedded FW and/or Kernel level development and debugging skills (C/C++, Makefile, gdb, uboot, uefi, kernel-mode drivers)

Responsibilities

Applies Graphics knowledge and experience to architect, design, implement, and verify the structure and performance of GPU hardware, drivers, features, applications, and tools.
Creates and maintains verification test benches and environments in System Verilog/UVM
Create and leverage advanced testing frameworks to generate and recreate real-world system integration conditions
Collaborates with Architecture, Software , Firmware, Design , Modeling, Emulation and Post-silicon validation teams to define and develop test methodology and content
Participate in GPU architecture, micro-architecture reviews
Collect, organize and execute various forms of system level test content including directed testcases, gaming benchmarks, standards compliance testsuites, and system level scenarios
Build automation for continue integration and testing based on latest GPU IP
Help collect and analyze test results using straightforward statistics and data predictions to track benchmarks and identify issues
Works with team members to understand and align on narrow scope of feature development and meet targets.
Write technical documentation and feature descriptions for straightforward projects under the direction of a supervisor.