General Summary:
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.
Minimum Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of experience with circuit design (e.g., digital, analog, RF).
• 2+ years of experience utilizing schematic capture and circuit simulation software.
• 2+ years of experience with hardware design and measurement instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF tools, etc.
Job Description:
Would be working on Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC HW performance in bare-metal validation environment.
Develop comprehensive testplan for performance validation of the SoC both from a usecase requirement as well as design delta motivated.
Determine which KPIs are relevant for the performance study by working closely with the respective subsystem teams in design, DV and validation.
Responsible for driving deep dive analysis on performance issues, bottlenecks and validating fixes or workarounds on subsystem and related SOC Modules.
The ideal candidate would have a strong SoC architecture background along with good embedded system concepts on modern ARM/X86 based chipsets.
Interface with subsystem validation, debug tools and SW teams during debugs.
Develop low-level custom code on ARM and Hexagon Q6 processors using C/C++ and validate functionality and performance KPIs using debug trace dump
Job Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics/Electrical Engineering or related field and 5+ years of full time experience
OR
Masters's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics/Electrical Engineering or related field and 3+ years of full time experience
Familiar with CPU and SoC Architecture and micro-architecture, preferably ARM or ARM processor-based systems, clocking schemes, hierarchical memory systems, cache configurations and coherency issues in multi-core systems.
Experience with workload performance characterization, bandwidth and latency analysis, and driving microarchitecture investigations on CPU/GPU/Multimedia Systems with relevant performance metrics.
Logical thinking and problem-solving ability with focus on performance centric validation
Familiar with pre-silicon validation environments with Emulation and Virtual Bring-Up, etc.
Basic statistics and data analysis skills to identify performance trends from large data sets and the technical bent to investigate anomalies (Good to have)
Strong programming experience in at least one language: C,C++, Python (Must have)
Good communication, English speaking/writing and team work attitude
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