CPU Emulation Engineer

Overview

As a CPU Emulation Engineer, you will work as part of the CPU verification team to deliver emulation-based solutions for the CPU team. You will work closely with all disciplines of the CPU team to help verify and validate high performance CPUs.

• Work closely with CPU RTL, performance, verification and SW teams to deliver emulation-based solutions.
• Architect and develop test bench infrastructure in C/C++ and System Verilog for enabling CPU emulation across different platforms.
• Develop verification methodology, ensuring scalable and portable environment across simulation and emulation.
• Debug emulation performance and area issues to efficiently use emulation resources.
• Develop environment to run verification test cases, OS boot, performance benchmarks and other vectors.
• Develop debugging methodology to enable efficient debugging and root-causing of CPU functional and performance issues.
• Develop and maintain emulation environment to collect metrics related to the emulation environment.
• Work closely with emulation CAD team to resolve infrastructure issues and ensure productivity on emulation models.
• Execute verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring-up, regression enabling for all features under your care, and debug of test failures.

• 5+ years of experience with emulation platforms – Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, FPGAs.
• Experience with synthesizing and optimizing designs and verification components developed in synthesizable Verilog.
• Experience with C/C++ DPI transactors and monitors.
• Experience in scripting using Perl, Python or shell scripts. Experience with packaging workloads for cloud.
• Experience with debugging RISCV CPU-based designs. Knowledge of RISCV and programmers’ model is a plus.
• Experience with Linux boot and firmware aspects is a plus.
• Experience with CPU architecture and micro-architecture is a plus.

• 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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EEO

Employer:

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.

Pay range: $ – $. The pay scale reflects the broad range for this job code and location. Salary is only one component of total compensation, which also includes a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunities for annual RSU grants. Qualcomm offers a comprehensive benefits package. Your recruiter can discuss details about benefits.

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