SoC Infrastructure​/NoC, Power & Performance Validation Lead AI Accelerator Platform

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

Qualcomm’s System Validation & Emulation (SVE) team is part of the central SoC validation organization responsible for ensuring end-to-end silicon quality across pre- and post-silicon phases
.

This role focuses on content quality and system-level validation enablement
, offering deep exposure to Qualcomm SoCs through bare-metal validation content
, scalable automation frameworks, and complex system debugs. Engineers in this role work across HW and SW boundaries to develop, validate, and scale system-level test content
, ensuring high-quality silicon validation across a wide range of SoC domains.

Excellent Opportunity to work on cutting-edge SoCs across multiple product segments
, including:

• Premium mobile and flagship platforms
• Data center
• AI Accelerator platform

The team is currently seeking candidate specifically for SOC Infrastructure/NoC, Power and Performance Validation in pre-silicon emulation and post-silicon of industry-leading ,next generation AI Accelerator and compute platform. An ideal candidate is expected to have an excellent understanding of digital design fundamentals, on-chip interconnects, writing content to validate and analyze SOC bus architecture, performance and power.

• Come up with thorough performance validation plans and work closely with team members to ensure Performance-Power trade-offs are factored in
• SOC Bandwidth, QoS, Latency and Throughput analysis

• BS or MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in silicon validation, or platform bring-up.
• Interconnect architectures - No
  
  Cs, AXI, AHB etc. Knowledge of upstream and downstream operations and the ability to write programs to stress their transactions for appropriate coverage
• Solid expertise in various FIFO designs and related performance/functionality aspects
• Memory hierarchy and caches - coherency, consistency (ordering), memory types and attributes, synchronization & semaphores, full-system concurrency, MTE, MPAM
• Thorough understanding of CPU and DDR concepts, Multimedia, GPU, Peripherals
• System low power modes, Dynamic clock and voltage scaling operations, Interrupt architecture
• Debug architecture - interactions with JTAG based debuggers, state dump scripts
• In depth debugging experience for Complex HW and SW issues
• Experience working with Perfmon architecture
  -performance counters, telemetry data, and hardware/software co-optimization.
• Drive correlation between pre-silicon models, emulation platforms, and silicon performance measurements.
• Evaluate AI inference and training workloads to ensure optimal throughput, latency, memory bandwidth, and power-performance efficiency.
• Contribute to methodology development for performance characterization, benchmarking, and KPI tracking across product generations.
• Create performance dashboards, reports, and technical reviews for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience in embedded systems/expertise in C, C++, Python and assembly languages. Design and Implementation of drivers and test content
• Logical thinking and problem-solving ability with focus on Power, Performance and SoC System feature validation
• Fundamental understanding of Static, Leakage and Dynamic power in a semiconductor design
• Familiarity in debug tools including JTAG and kernel debuggers

• Strong understanding of computer architecture, AI/ML accelerators, memory hierarchy, cache coherency, and on-chip interconnects.
• Knowledge of AI/ML workloads, tensor operations, matrix multiplication, transformer models, and large-scale inference systems.
• Familiarity…