#Systems SoC Test Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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Systems Test Engineering

This position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.

• Validate system functionality, performance, reliability, and robustness across mobile, PC, and automotive platforms.
• Design, develop, and execute end-to-end validation solutions for critical SoC subsystems including DDR, CPU, PCIe, Storage, No
  
  Cs, Power Management, Clocking, GPU, Video, Audio, and AI/DSP processors.
• Develop and execute AI model integration and validation tests using Qualcomm Hexagon and AI Direct SDKs.
• Support early silicon bring-up, platform enablement, and full system validation on target hardware.
• Verify system correctness, performance, low-power operation, reliability, and bit-exact behavior across hardware and software stacks.
• Evaluate system stability through stress, endurance, performance, and reliability testing.

• Define, expand, and track test coverage across features, subsystems, and platforms.
• Identify validation gaps and develop new test scenarios to improve product quality.
• Monitor test metrics, regression trends, pass rates, and quality indicators.
• Ensure comprehensive logging and diagnostic data collection across Android, Linux, Windows, and QNX environments.
• Perform root-cause analysis of issues reported by customers, OEMs, and internal teams, spanning BSP through HLOS software layers.

• Design and develop scalable cross-platform automation frameworks primarily in C/C++.
• Build automation capable of supporting large-scale device farms with robust recovery, monitoring, and analytics capabilities.
• Improve validation efficiency through reusable tools, automation best practices, and continuous integration workflows.
• Develop supporting automation using Python, Shell/Bash, and Power Shell where appropriate.

• Analyze logs, traces, crash dumps, and system telemetry to identify root causes.
• Debug software, firmware, and hardware-related issues affecting platform stability.
• Investigate power, thermal, performance, memory, and system-level failures.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, driver, and software teams to drive issue resolution.

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

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM field.
• Strong programming fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms.
• Proficiency in C/C++ development and debugging.
• Experience in software validation, test engineering, embedded systems, or related areas. Exceptional new graduates with relevant internship or project experience from the tech sector are encouraged to apply.
• Public Git Hub projects demonstrating embedded software, DSP, systems programming, or automation development.
• Experience with Qualcomm Hexagon DSP, AI Direct SDK, Vulkan, OpenCL, or embedded ARM-based platforms.
• Experience building large-scale automated validation environments.
• Familiarity with performance profiling, telemetry collection, and system test analytics.
• Knowledge of AI/ML workloads, edge AI deployment, or accelerator validation.

• Strong programming skills in C/C++.
• Experience with embedded systems, DSP SDKs, or system software development.
• Ability to debug software issues using debuggers, memory analysis tools, and system diagnostics.
• Debug System issues :
  Thermal excursions, Power state problems, CPU Latency issues, ARM ISA familiarity
• Experience working in Linux environments, including kernel debugging and system-level development.
• Familiarity with Android, Windows, QNX, or similar operating systems.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Shell/Bash, or Power Shell.
• Understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and hardware-software interactions.

• Critical thinking and methodical analytical and problem-solving abilities across complex SoC subsystems or embedded systems
• Excellent communication and collaboration…