SoC Debug Engineer

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:

• 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.

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• 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.)

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor's, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering Preferred, Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits: $140,000.00 - $210,000.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer - and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.