Validation Engineer with DDR Familiarity

Job Posting Date

2025-09-03

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General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all.

Qualcomm's Silicon Validation team is part of the central SoC digital hardware organization responsible

for

the overall quality of the SoC silicon. The validation team works closely with

architects, designers, verification engineers, software engineers,

and customers. The team is currently seeking candidates specifically in SOC validation in pre-silicon emulation

and post-silicon regression. Technical disciplines, languages

and methodologies included in this team

are:

• DDR related debug
• Regression

and PVT testing

• Emulation Build Validation,
• Post-Si Regressions

Required Qualifications:

• Intelligent and high potential of learning new topics.

• Familiarity with DDR interface, JEDEC spec, bus level view of transactions

• Need experience with Memory Analyzer, Logic Analyzer, DDR trace decoding and post processing.

• Familiar with RDIMM, LRDIMM, HBM3, HBM4, CXL, DDR5, DDR6

• Regression and PVT testing
• Emulation Build Validation

• Potency in reading C code, understanding code flow, code manipulation, and test iteration.

• Post-Si test execution and data review

• Familiarity with logic design

• Proven track record of hardware debug.

• hands-on experience of debugging low level software and hardware issues
• Debug tools including JTAG and kernel debuggers

• Lauterbach experience preferred.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

OR

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$140,000.00 - $210,000.00

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