GPU Design Verification Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULCJob 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/UVMCreate 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 IPHelp 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.

ORMaster'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.

ORPhD 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 SKILLSExperience in GPU based verification

Experience in system or sub-system level verification

Concurrency, Preemption, Stress testing frameworks

Testbench Architecture and ImplementationGFX 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 ArchitectureC/C++, GNU Toolchain, Visual Studio Formal verification - FPV and DPV experience is a plus

Experience with emulation/prototyping/hybrid build and execution flows…