Emulation Engineer - RISC -V

Qualcomm
Cupertino, CA, United States
2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
8 years minimum
Compensation
$167,100.0 - $250,700.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

X86 Architecture Systems Engineering ARM Architecture C++ (Programming Language) Communications Protocols Computer Engineering Computer Literacy Software Debugging Linux Emulators Firmware Hardware Design
+13 more
Hypervisor Python (Programming Language) Kernel-Based Virtual Machine Systems Development Life Cycle Real-Time Operating Systems Reduced Instruction Set Computing Software Engineering System Software SystemVerilog Tcl (Programming Language) Xen Servers Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Information Technology

Job description

You will work cross-functionally across all pre-silicon disciplines - architecture, microarchitecture, design, design verification, software, performance, and emulation/prototyping - communicating clearly across teams and geographies to develop, debug, and maintain complex system-level hybrid execution environments. These environments enable pre-silicon bring-up of system software and performance benchmarking workloads.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Verification (System development task)?, * 8+ years of industry experience

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in a relevant engineering field
  • Strong domain knowledge of computer architectureAbility to work independently and across geographies *

Technical Background

Emulation & Prototyping

  • Hands-on experience with commercial emulation platforms (Palladium, Mentor Veloce) and/or prototyping platforms (Protium, Primo, HAPS)
  • Expertise in transactor development, virtual prototyping, and advanced verification techniques (assertions, coverage, UPF)

Hardware Design & Verification

  • Solid understanding of modern SystemVerilog for design and verification
  • Experience isolating and reproducing silicon bugs in emulation

Software & Debug

  • Strong software development in compiled (C/C++) and interpreted (Python, Tcl) languages
  • Proven hardware/software co-debug skillsWorking knowledge of firmware, OS (Linux, RTOS), and hypervisor (Xen, KVM) stacks for embedded and server applications

Architecture & Interfaces Familiarity with CPU architectures (RISC-V, x86, ARMv8), coherent communication protocols, and standard IO interfaces Infrastructure & Tooling

  • Experience building and maintaining production infrastructure automation, including execution
  • pipelines and observability and reporting frameworks, * Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience., Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience. OR PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Benefits & conditions

4.04.0 out of 5 stars Cupertino, CA $167,100 - $250,700 a year, 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 : $167,100.00 - $250,700.00

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 .

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