Staff Engineer – SoC Validation Framework & Infrastructure

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm's System Validation & Emulation (SVE) organization is looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to develop scalable software frameworks, tools, and infrastructure for pre-silicon and post-silicon SoC validation . The role involves embedded/system software development, silicon bring-up, validation automation, and complex hardware-software debugging across multicore SoC platforms.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

Experience: 8–11 years mandatory

Key Skills:

• Strong programming expertise in C/C++, Assembly, Python & Shell
• Embedded/System Software and validation framework/infrastructure development
• Strong understanding of ARMv8/ARMv9, multicore and heterogeneous SoC architectures
• Experience with Linux/RTOS, boot flows, interrupts, MMU and low-level software
• Knowledge of cache coherency, memory ordering, synchronization and memory subsystems
• Hands-on experience with pre-silicon/emulation, FPGA and post-silicon validation/debug
• Debugging using JTAG/Trace32 and similar silicon debug tools
• Experience with GCC/Clang/LLVM, build systems, Makefiles and linker scripts
• Exposure to CI/CD, validation automation and regression infrastructure

Preferred: Experience with silicon/board bring-up, hardware-software integration, reusable validation frameworks, and SoC infrastructure development .

Mandatory Experience: Candidates must have 8–11 years of relevant industry experience in Embedded Software, System Software, SoC Validation, Silicon Enablement, Platform Software, or Validation Framework/Infrastructure Development.

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