SoC Debug Engineer

Qualcomm•San Diego, CA

3d•$140,000 - $210,000

About The Position

Qualcomm's Silicon Validation team is part of the central SoC digital hardware organization responsible for the overall quality of the SoC silicon. The validation team works closely with architects, designers, verification engineers, software engineers, and customers. We are currently seeking a candidate for the position of SoC Debug Engineer. In this role, the candidate will support three critical roles.

Requirements

5 to 8 years of experience with pre-si and post-silicon enabling, bring-up, analyze failures at the embedded platform level
RTL inspection and understanding of basic RTL
Gen AI knowledge and experience for automating the Debug flow
Support, develop, and implement solutions for faster debug at the platform level including isolating failing components of a system
Creating debug strategies and plans for partners to more rapidly triage failures to isolate specific components including PVT and marginality issues
Debugging low level software and hardware issues
Debug tools including JTAG
Using Lab Equipment (Logic Analyzer, Scope, Signal Generator, etc.)
Bachelor's, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering

Nice To Haves

Master's, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering
Basic understanding of power and performance
Some programming and scripting languages (C, Assembly, Perl, Python, etc.)
Knowledge of TCU, PVT, Fmax, Vmin test methodology and hands-on experience
CPU and SoC architectures
Gen AI experience

Responsibilities

Bring up, debug, analyze failures at the embedded platform level in both pre-Si and post-Si phase
Support, develop, and implement solutions for faster debug at the platform level including isolating failing components of a system
Creating debug strategies and plans for partners to more rapidly triage failures to isolate specific components including PVT and marginality issues.
Gen AI automation and enablement for automating the Debug flow