Memory Compute System Validation Engineer

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

• Develop AI, inference, and data‑intensive bare‑metal workloads to stress memory and compute subsystems.
• Root‑cause complex hardware and software issues spanning SoC architecture, firmware, drivers, interconnects, memory systems, clocks, power domains, and low‑power features.
• Enable silicon bring‑up, qualification, and productization through deep technical analysis and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Partner closely with architecture, design, firmware, software, emulation, FPGA, and silicon teams to solve challenging system‑level problems.

• BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in memory validation, silicon validation, or platform bring‑up.
• Strong debugging and analytical problem‑solving skills.
• Proficiency in C/C++, Python, scripting, and low‑level software development.
• Solid understanding of SoC architecture, embedded systems, operating systems, memory hierarchy, caches, coherency & concurrency.
• Experience with silicon bring‑up, validation, and root‑cause analysis.
• Familiarity with JTAG, kernel debuggers, lab instrumentation, and validation tools.
• Experience working across the hardware/software boundary in highly complex systems.

• Experience in one or more of:
  • Near‑Memory Compute (NMC)
  • Processing‑in‑Memory (PIM)
  • High‑Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
  • LPDDR/DDR memory systems
  • Memory controllers
  • AI accelerators
• Knowledge on AI GEMM and GEMV operations, DMA operations, multi‑threading
• AI/ML‑assisted validation and debug methodologies
• Embedded firmware, device drivers, and bare‑metal software
• Emulation, and post‑silicon validation

Join a team driving the next generation of AI‑centric memory and compute architectures, spanning High‑Bandwidth Memory (HBM), Processing‑in‑Memory (PIM), Near‑Memory Compute (NMC), 3D‑stacked memory systems, and memory‑compute convergence technologies.

You will work on some of the industry's most advanced SoC technologies. Your work will directly influence silicon bring‑up, product readiness, and the delivery of high‑quality platforms powering future generations of Data‑center and AI products.

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

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