CPU Verification Engineer, Up to Staff Level

Company Qualcomm Semiconductor Limited

Job Area Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary As a CPU Verification Engineer, you will be responsible for verifying design features across all aspects of CPU.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Develop deep understanding of CPU micro-architecture.
• Work closely with design/verification teams within CPU to develop comprehensive test plan.
• Use simulation and formal verification methodologies to execute test plans. Write checkers, assertions and develop stimulus.
• Verify power intent through use of methodologies like UPF.
• Work closely with system architects, software teams and Soc team to validate system use cases.
• Work closely with emulation team to enable verification on emulators and FPGA platforms.
• Debug and triage failures in simulation, emulation and/or Silicon.

Minimum Requirements

• BA/BS degree in CS/EE – with course work in computer architecture.
• Experience with programming languages – C/C++ and scripting languages – Perl/Python.
• Experience with hardware description languages – System Verilog/VHDL.
• Implementation of assembly and C language embedded firmware
• Experience with software tool chain including assemblers, C compilers, Makefiles, and source code control tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters or PhD degree in CS/EE
• Strong understanding of micro-processor architecture.
• Strong understanding of power management, physical design concepts.
• Experience in Silicon bring up and validation of CPU features.
• Experience in debug of functional, power, performance and/or physical design issues in silicon.
• Experience in CPU design and verification.
• Experience in Test development for validation of CPU features on Silicon.
• Experience in development of test vectors for tester bring up.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field.

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