GPU Design Verification Engineer

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Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

## Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group GPU ASICS Engineering

General

Summary:

Architects, designs, implements, verifies, and optimizes performance and power of GPU cores. Responsible for verification of Graphics IP , and performing pre- and post-silicon verification to verify correctness and ensure performance and power goals are met.

The responsibilities of this role include:

* Owning and executing on key independent tasks towards program requirements

* Using verbal and written communication skills to convey basic, routine factual information about day-to-day activities to others who are fully knowledgeable in the subject area.

* Working within prescribed timeline requirements and resource constraints

* Applying independent creative thought to troubleshoot technical problems or deal with novel circumstances.

* Research through available resources and engagement with various inter-disciplinary teams

* Using deductive problem solving to solve moderately complex problems; most problems have defined processes of diagnosis/detection; some limited data analysis may be required.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Applies Graphics knowledge and experience to architect, design, implement, and verify the structure and performance of GPU hardware, drivers, features, applications, and tools.

* Creates and maintains verification test benches and environments in System Verilog/UVM

* Create and leverage advanced testing frameworks to generate and recreate real-world system integration conditions

* Collaborates with Architecture, Software , Firmware, Design , Modeling, Emulation and Post-silicon validation teams to define and develop test methodology and content

* Participate in GPU architecture, micro-architecture reviews

* Collect, organize and execute various forms of system level test content including directed testcases, gaming benchmarks, standards compliance test suites, and system level scenarios

* Build automation for continue integration and testing based on latest GPU IP

* Help collect and analyze test results using straightforward statistics and data predictions to track benchmarks and identify issues

* Works with team members to understand and align on narrow scope of feature development and meet targets.

* Write technical documentation and feature descriptions for straightforward projects under the direction of a supervisor.

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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* 5+ years Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience

* Verification skills:
Test planning, Scripting, Simulation, problem solving and debug.

* System Verilog, UVM, Verilog or VHDL, C/C++ skills required.

* Constrained random, Functional Coverage development, design debug experience required.

* Exposure to Emulation/Prototyping Platforms (Veloce, Palladium, Zebu, FPGA)

* Master's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

* 2+ years relevant GPU experience (either external or internal).

PREFERRED SKILLS

* Experience in GPU based verification

* Experience in system or sub-system level verification

* Concurrency, Preemption, Stress testing frameworks

* Testbench Architecture and Implementation

* GFX API Exposure :
Vulkan/DX11/DX12 Exposure

* Scripting and automation skills (Python, Make, Airflow etc)

* Embedded FW Development and Debugging

* Benchmarking and Performance Analysis

* Windows and/or Linux OS Kernel Architecture

* C/C++, GNU Toolchain, Visual Studio

* Formal verification - FPV and DPV experience is a plus

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