Staff/ Sr. Staff Design Verification Engineer - QGOV

Job Description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Design Verification

Role:

• Familiarity with RTL design in Verilog and SystemVerilog


• Develop verification methodology, ensuring a scalable and portable environment across simulation and emulation.


• Develop test plan to verify hardware building blocks, design macros and standard interfaces (PCIE, DDR, USB, I2C, SPI, etc).


• Own end-to-end DV tasks from coding test benches and test cases, write assertions, run simulations, and achieve all coverage goals.


• Explore innovative DV methodologies (formal, simulation, and emulation based) to continuously push the quality and efficiency of test benches.


• Develop and maintain an emulation environment to collect metrics related to emulation.

Need to be in San Diego full time, 5 days a week

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to receive a U.S. Government security clearance.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of work experience with RTL/FPGA design (Verilog), embedded system architecture.


• 5+ years of Design Verification, Emulation and Debug experience with simulation, emulation and prototyping flows.

Relevant experience of 5+ yrs in any of the mentioned domain - Design/Verification/ Implementation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of communication protocols such as AXI4-x, DDRx, PCIe, etc.


• Strong SystemVerilog/UVM based verification skills & experience with assertion & coverage-based verification methodology.


• Good understanding of chip-level functional model building.


• Good understanding of OOP concepts and experience in HVL such as System Verilog, UVM/OVM & System C.


• Knowledge of behavioral and structural models and familiarity with simulation environments.


• Experience customizing and debugging make-based build flows and working with Xilinx’s Vivado tools.


• Experience with cm tools such as Git and Gerrit.


• Experience with formal/static verification methodologies will be a plus.


• Experience with emulation platforms – Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, FPGAs.


• Experience with synthesizing and optimizing designs and verification components developed in synthesizable Verilog.


• Experience with C/C++ DPI transactors and monitors.


• Develop and maintain emulation environment to collect metrics related to emulation.


• Develop environment to run verification test cases, OS boot, performance benchmarks and other vectors.


• Design, develop, and maintain CAD infrastructure for silicon design teams enabling bring up, test and debug automations.


• Execute verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring-up, regression enabling for all features under your care, debug of the test failures.


• Experience with debugging tools such as JTAG and lab test equipment such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, etc.


• Experience with GLS, and scripting languages such as Perl, Python is a plus.


• Linux OS proficiency.

The ideal candidate would be a self‑starter with strong initiative, discipline, motivation, and a focus on quality.

The candidate must be a team player and be flexible and open to a variety of task assignments within the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.


• Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.


• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities.

Pay range: $164,000.00 - $246,000.00

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. In addition, Qualcomm offers a competitive annual discretionary bonus program, opportunities for annual RSU grants, and a highly competitive benefits package. For more details about our US benefits, please refer to the link below.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.