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Staff Video Hardware Design Verification Engineer

Qualcomm Technologies
San Diego, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/2/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/2/2026
Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Video Systems, HW Architecture

General Summary:

This individual leads and plans complex verification efforts by synthesizing ambiguous or conflicting requirements while researching and developing testbenches, Testplan, SystemVerilog/UVM testcases, and related optimization, modeling, and design-verification activities. Designs, develops, implements, and verifies advanced video power architectures with a strong emphasis on power-saving techniques and power-critical design considerations, contributing to both hardware and firmware tasks across video encoders, video decoders, computer-vision pipelines, and AI features. Collaborates closely with design teams to define new low-power architectures for video and computer-vision modules or enhance existing designs across markets such as mobile, automotive, IoT, and others, while ensuring that system KPIs-including performance, area efficiency, and power metrics-are consistently achieved. Responsible for Power architecture verification and ensuring that the power intent is thoroughly verified. Develops a deep understanding of the power sequence and optimizes it to provide a low latency power sequence for both production software (SW) and firmware (FW). Drives triage of problems to determine root cause and provide recommendations to fix and/or improve. Acts as a strong contributor at design reviews and project meetings and communicates and implements a development plan.

Will accept a Master's Degree (or foreign academic equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related degree field.

Compensation: $148,300.00 - $222,500.00/year

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Salary : $148,300 - $222,500

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