GPU Validation and Emulation Engineer, Staff

Job Posting Date

2025-08-21

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.

Additional Job Description

Job Description:

• Synthesize the Verilog RTL and create models and compile them to emulators like Veloce/Palladium/Zebu and/or FPGA platforms
• Develop all aspects of hardware emulator implementation, with emphasis on design partitioning, synthesis, place and route, timing analysis & run time performance.
• Drive debug failures on emulator using latest technologies. Work with designers and SW driver team for testplan and debug.
• Work with tool vendors and push the methodology to improve the area/performance of the synthesized FPGA RTL.
• Work on third-party IP integration and system-level debugging.
• 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
• 1+ years of hands on experience in emulation/simulation acceleration/FPGA.
• 1+ years in Design validation/Post-Silicon debug.
• 1+ years of hands on experience in creating high performance & area efficient emulation environments from RTL.
• 1+ years of hands on emulator platforms, platform bringup, digital design, verification, debugging, and waveform viewers
• 1+ Hardware emulators, such as Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce, or 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
• 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:

$161,800.00 - $242,600.00

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