Emulation Engineer - RISC -V

Job Title

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

- CPU Engineering

You will work cross-functionally across all pre-silicon disciplines — architecture, microarchitecture, design, design verification, software, performance, and emulation/prototyping — communicating clearly across teams and geographies to develop, debug, and maintain complex system-level hybrid execution environments. These environments enable pre-silicon bring-up of system software and performance benchmarking workloads.

8+ years of industry experience

Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in a relevant engineering field

Strong domain knowledge of computer architecture

Ability to work independently and across geographies

• Hands-on experience with commercial emulation platforms (Palladium, Mentor Veloce) and/or prototyping platforms (Protium, Primo, HAPS)
• Expertise in transactor development, virtual prototyping, and advanced verification techniques (assertions, coverage, UPF)

• Solid understanding of modern System Verilog for design and verification
• Experience isolating and reproducing silicon bugs in emulation

• Strong software development in compiled (C/C++) and interpreted (Python, Tcl) languages
• Proven hardware/software co-debug skills
• Working knowledge of firmware, OS (Linux, RTOS), and hypervisor (Xen, KVM) stacks for embedded and server applications

• Familiarity with CPU architectures (RISC-V, x86, ARMv8), coherent communication protocols, and standard IO interfaces

• Experience building and maintaining production infrastructure automation, including execution pipelines and observability and reporting frameworks

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience. OR PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

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