Near-Memory Compute System Validation Engineer
About The Position
Qualcomm’s System Validation & Emulation (SVE) team is part of the central SoC validation organization responsible for ensuring end-to-end silicon quality across pre- and post-silicon phases. This role focuses on content quality and system-level validation enablement, offering deep exposure to Qualcomm SoCs through bare-metal validation content, scalable automation frameworks, and complex system debugs. Engineers in this role work across HW and SW boundaries to develop, validate, and scale system-level test content, ensuring high-quality silicon validation across a wide range of SoC domains. Excellent Opportunity to work on cutting-edge SoCs across multiple product segments, including: Premium mobile and flagship platforms, Data center, AI Accelerator platform.
Requirements
- BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 3+ years of experience in memory validation, silicon validation, or platform bring-up.
- Strong debugging and analytical problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in C/C++, Python, scripting, and low-level software development.
- Solid understanding of SoC architecture, embedded systems, operating systems, memory hierarchy, caches, coherency & concurrency.
- Experience with silicon bring-up, validation, and root-cause analysis.
- Familiarity with JTAG, kernel debuggers, lab instrumentation, and validation tools.
- Experience working across the hardware/software boundary in highly complex systems.
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
- Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
- PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in one or more of: Near-Memory Compute (NMC), Processing-in-Memory (PIM), High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM), LPDDR/DDR memory systems, Memory controllers, AI accelerators
- Knowledge on AI GEMM and GEMV operations, DMA operations, multi-threading
- AI/ML-assisted validation and debug methodologies
- Embedded firmware, device drivers, and bare-metal software
- Emulation, and post-silicon validation
Responsibilities
- Develop AI, inference, and data-intensive bare-metal workloads to stress memory and compute subsystems.
- Root-cause complex hardware and software issues spanning SoC architecture, firmware, drivers, interconnects, memory systems, clocks, power domains, and low-power features.
- Enable silicon bring-up, qualification, and productization through deep technical analysis and cross-functional collaboration.
- Partner closely with architecture, design, firmware, software, emulation, FPGA, and silicon teams to solve challenging system-level problems.
Benefits
- competitive annual discretionary bonus program
- opportunity for annual RSU grants
- highly competitive benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
