GPU Prototype and Validation Engineer, Staff

Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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

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 GPU Engineer, you may architect, design, implement, verify, and/or optimize the performance and power of GPU cores. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet and exceed customer needs.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 4 years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 3 years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 2 years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Job Description:

• Support the architecture, construction, and synthesis of FPGA prototype platforms
• Develop all aspects of hardware emulator implementation, with emphasis on design partitioning, synthesis, place and route, timing analysis & run time performance.
• Create custom monitors, checkers and tools for debug of design operation
• Support OS and full driver stack operation on prototype platforms
• Work with Hardware, Software and Performance Analysis teams for execution and analysis of workloads on platform
• Drive tests, benchmarks and compliance suite execution on prototype platform
• Work with tool vendors and push the methodology to improve the area/performance of the synthesized FPGA RTL.
• System level RTL simulation & design verification.
• Support chip bring up and post silicon debug.
• Debug functional and timing models.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Science, Engineering, or closely related field
• 7 years of experience in an IP or SOC design development team (Emulation, RTL, DV, etc)
• 5 years of hands-on experience in emulation/simulation acceleration/FPGA.
• 4 years in Design validation/Post-Silicon debug.
• 4 years of hands-on experience in creating high performance & area efficient emulation environments from RTL.
• 4 years of hands-on emulator platforms, platform bringup, digital design, verification, debugging, and waveform viewers
• 4 FPGA systems based on Xilinx or Altera FPGAs
• 1 Emulation methodologies, including in-circuit emulation, hybrid systems, or simulation acceleration

Desirable Skills:

• MS degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent; 1 year of practical experience
• Design Verification knowledge - UVM/System Verilog preferred
• Knowledge of GPU/CPU/DDR/Bus preferred
• Windows OS and/or Kernel Mode Driver exposure
• 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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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$182,200.00 - $273,400.00

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