GPU Pre-Silicon Validation Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > GPU ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Are you interested in exploring how top of the line GPU's work? Qualcomm’s GPU PSE (Post-Silicon Engineering) team is a part of the Adreno GPU HW Development organization and is responsible for the overall quality of the Graphics IP in silicon. As a member of our GPU PSE team, you will be working closely with GPU architects, designers, verification and graphics software driver engineers to help validate and productize the next generation graphics core for mobile devices. In this position, you will be responsible for improving our pre-silicon validation coverage and test methodologies as well as creating GPU bring-up test-plans that validate both electrical and functional features within the GPU. Providing debug analysis, support and solutions for silicon issues that range from the internal level to OEM level. We are looking for highly motivated and creative engineers that enjoy working in a fast-paced, dynamic, environment with minimal guidance. Candidates must have extremely strong communication and teamwork skills and approach difficult challenges as learning opportunities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Qualifications:

• Candidate will have a previous experience working in emulation and silicon environments.
• Experience in functional validation and debug of mixed-signal IP
• Experience in Post-silicon enablement and bring up

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant GPU experience. Experience in functional validation and debug of mixed-signal IP
• Experience utilizing emulation environments for development and debug
• Debugging low level firmware, software, logic and electrical issues
• Familiarity with software driver interaction with GPU hardware
• Test planning and methodologies to expose low level problems
• Debug tools including JTAG and kernel debuggers
• GPU and SoC architectures
• GPU APIs (Direct3D/OpenGL/OpenCL)
• Understanding of power, performance and thermal on silicon environments
• Experience programming in C/C++/Python/Assembly
• Basic familiarity with Verilog/SystemVerilog
• Experience in dealing with various customer OEMs.
• Experience in the Android and Windows HLOS environments.
• Understanding of the latest graphics trends in mobile and PC gaming

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$161,800.00 - $242,600.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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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 classification.