System Hardware Validation Engineer - Cork, Ireland

Job Posting Date

2025-09-08

Company:

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

About The Role

The System Hardware Validation Engineer will work as part of Qualcomm’s SVE (System Validation Emulation) Team on leading technologies such as the Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. SVE have a critical impact on getting high quality functional products to millions of customers quickly and we are hiring all levels from junior to staff roles. You will be joining a team of expert low-level validation engineers with diverse backgrounds (Synthetic OS, DDR memories, sensors, security, CPUs and caching, Nucleus RTOS, embedded systems) to test Qualcomm's next generation SoCs. As part of the system validation team you will develop or port test software to evaluate new hardware IPs.

The successful candidate will focus development in the areas of Driver/Firmware Development and Validation, Debug and Resolution of Issues and Software Use-Case Implementation. The successful candidate will be expected to work closely with system architects, software engineers, hardware designers and verification engineers.

Role & Responsibilities

In this role responsibilities include, although not limited to:

• Delivery of low-level hardware drivers for Qualcomm Snapdragon Subsystems
• Manage validation and testing of the driver/hardware
• Migrate drivers to new platforms as required
• Drive innovation in software use cases
• On-going code re-factoring
• Test plan development and execution

Required Skills

Candidate will have a minimum of 3-5 years of experience. Candidates are expected to have:

• Experience in Low Level software development in C, C++, and Assembly.
• Excellent knowledge of ARM and RISC V processors
• Experience in automation and test/integration methodologies.
• Experience developing validation methodologies and infrastructure solutions.
• Experience with SCM tools (GIT, Perforce)
• Experience with defect tracking tools (JIRA)
• Good communication skills
• Strong debug skills

Preferred Skills

• Developing and optimizing test framework and tools to create a controlled validation environment to support large scale validation.
• Designing and defining new validation strategy as well as detailed test plans.
• Lead debug efforts for issues found during Pre-silicon and Post-silicon.
• Define, design, and execute platform Pre-Silicon and Post-Silicon validation plans for current and future products.
• Provide mentorship and technical direction to a distributed team of system validation engineers for program execution.

Educational Requirements

Required: Bachelors in Engineering (Masters preferred)

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering/Science or related field.

Where you will be working

Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.

There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.

A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

What's on Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Matching pension scheme
• Education Assistance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being
• Bicycle purchase scheme
• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more