CPU Emulation Engineer (Multiple Levels)

Job description

General Summary: As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field. As a CPU Emulation Engineer, you will work as part of CPU verification team to deliver emulation-based solutions for CPU team. You will work closely with all disciplines of CPU team to help verify and validate high performance CPUs. Role and Responsibilities - 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 Systemverilog 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 debug and root causing of CPU functional and performance issues. - Develop and maintain emulation environment to collect metrics related to 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, debug of the test failures. Preferred Qualifications - 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 ARM CPU based designs. Knowledge on ARM ISA 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.