Hardware Design Validation Engineer – Graphics

Overview

Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > GPU ASICS Engineering

Job Overview:

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age – and this is where you come in.

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age – and this is where you come in.

As a Hardware Design Verification Engineer – Graphics, you will be responsible for to the following:

+ Drive SubSystem block and full-chip level emulation (FPGA & emulator), and be responsible for QoR (timing, capacity) and debug.

+ Work with microarchitecture, design team, to understand specifications and design tradeoffs in pipeline and structure sizing to achieve best-in-class area/performance in FPGA platform

+ Synthesize the Verilog RTL and create models and compile them to Veloce/Palladium and Prototype platforms

+ Develop all aspects of hardware emulator implementation, with emphasis on design partitioning, synthesis, place and route, timing analysis & run time performance.

+ Work with tool vendors and push the methodology to improve the area/performance of the synthesized FPGA RTL.

+ Work on third-party IP integration and system-level debugging

+ Block and system level RTL simulation & design verification

+ Support chip bring up and post silicon debug

+ Debug functional and timing models.

Minimum Qualifications

+ Bachelors degree in Science, Engineering, or closely related field

+ 5+ years of hands on experience in emulation/simulation acceleration/FPGA/design validation/Post-Silicon debug

+ 5+ years of hands on experience in creating high performance & area efficient emulation environments from RTL.

+ 5+ years of hands on emulator platforms, platform bringup, digital design, verification, debugging, and waveform viewers

Preferred Qualifications

+ MS degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent; 8 years of practical experience

+ Solid understanding industry standard tools for FPGA and Emulation platforms

+ Design Verification knowledge – UVM/System Verilog preferred

+ Knowledge of GPU/CPU/DDR/Bus preferred

+ Hardware emulators, such as Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce, or FPGA systems based on Xilinx or Altera FPGAs

+ Emulation methodologies, including in-circuit emulation, hybrid systems, or simulation acceleration

+ Verilog and System Verilog experience.

+ Debugging system-level software, Debug RTL

+ Programming skills in C and C++

+ Scripting in Python, Tcl, or Perl

+ Knowledge of Vendor Emulation tools/Xilinx tools/Synthesis tools

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