Security System Test Engineer

Qualcomm•San Diego, CA
•$121,800 - $182,600

About The Position

The Security System Test Engineer will work as part of Qualcomm’s Hardware Security Team on leading technologies in Qualcomm’s diverse portfolio: Artificial Intelligence, Laptops, IoT, Mobile, Automotive, Wearables, and XR/VR. Product Security Certifications are critical in building customer trust, demonstrating security capabilities, meeting regulations, and ensuring high security assurance. You will be joining a cross functional team of expert hardware and security engineers contributing to the development and certification of Qualcomm Product Portfolio. You will focus on developing scalable methodologies, software vectors, test benches, test platform assembly, and automation tools for supporting: Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP), Common Criteria, Global Platform, and EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The candidate will be expected to work across multiple disciplines from system architects, hardware designers, production test engineers, security analyst, and certification engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
  • OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
  • OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • Experience in Low Level software development in C, C++, and Assembly
  • Excellent knowledge of ARM / RISCV processors
  • Experience with SCM tools (GIT, Perforce)
  • Experience with defect tracking tools (JIRA, CQ)
  • Good communication skills
  • Ability to work with cross functional teams
  • Strong debug skills

Nice To Haves

  • Experience developing software vectors
  • Experienced with Operating Systems Principles
  • Understanding multi-threaded and multi-core computing
  • Working knowledge of software development process (Agile preferred)
  • Knowledge of Security Protocols (Hashing, symmetric and asymmetric cryptography)
  • Develop / Maintain / Port software vectors across a chipset families
  • Debug of software vectors & system initialization using Lauterbach Trace32 / Practice Scripts
  • Experience with developing test methodologies to support:
  • Experience with Qualcomm Automotive | Mobile | Compute | IOT or XR/VR Plarms.

Responsibilities

  • Developing scalable methodologies, software vectors, test benches, test platform assembly, and automation tools for supporting: Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP), Common Criteria, Global Platform, and EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
  • Working across multiple disciplines from system architects, hardware designers, production test engineers, security analyst, and certification engineers.
  • Validating Security Architecture & Engineering Designs meet Security Certification Requirements.
  • Leveraging Lab Instrument Automation to collect large Characterization Data Sets across environmental parameters ranges.
  • Developing test benches that support a diverse range of HW/SW Qualcomm platforms.
  • Developing test vectors to triage and isolate HW/SW faults

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.
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