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Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 13, 2025. Qualcomm scores B on the Alion truth index.

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Qualcomm is an American semiconductor and wireless technology company founded in 1985 and headquartered in San Diego, California. It holds foundational patents in CDMA and the 3G, 4G and 5G cellular standards, licensing them to nearly every handset maker in the world, while its chip division designs the Snapdragon platforms that power a large share of Android smartphones, personal computers, wearables and connected cars. The company has been diversifying away from smartphone dependence into automotive digital cockpit and driver assistance systems, industrial internet of things, and on-device AI processing through its Hexagon and Oryon architectures.
Backed by NEA, Valueaddvc, Mayfield

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > GPU ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Architects, designs, implements, verifies, and optimizes performance and power of GPU cores. Responsible for verification of Graphics IP , and performing pre- and post-silicon verification to verify correctness and ensure performance and power goals are met.

The responsibilities of this role include:

  • Owning and executing on key independent tasks towards program requirements
  • Using verbal and written communication skills to convey basic, routine factual information about day-to-day activities to others who are fully knowledgeable in the subject area.
  • Working within prescribed timeline requirements and resource constraints
  • Applying independent creative thought to troubleshoot technical problems or deal with novel circumstances.
  • Research through available resources and engagement with various inter-disciplinary teams
  • Using deductive problem solving to solve moderately complex problems; most problems have defined processes of diagnosis/detection; some limited data analysis may be required.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Applies Graphics knowledge and experience to architect, design, implement, and verify the structure and performance of GPU hardware, drivers, features, applications, and tools.
  • Creates and maintains verification test benches and environments in System Verilog/UVM
  • Create and leverage advanced testing frameworks to generate and recreate real-world system integration conditions
  • Collaborates with Architecture, Software , Firmware, Design , Modeling, Emulation and Post-silicon validation teams to define and develop test methodology and content
  • Participate in GPU architecture, micro-architecture reviews
  • Collect, organize and execute various forms of system level test content including directed testcases, gaming benchmarks, standards compliance testsuites, and system level scenarios
  • Build automation for continue integration and testing based on latest GPU IP
  • Help collect and analyze test results using straightforward statistics and data predictions to track benchmarks and identify issues
  • Works with team members to understand and align on narrow scope of feature development and meet targets.
  • Write technical documentation and feature descriptions for straightforward projects under the direction of a supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

OR

Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

PREFERRED SKILLS

  • Experience in GPU based verification
  • Experience in system or sub-system level verification
  • Concurrency, Preemption, Stress testing frameworks
  • Testbench Architecture and Implementation
  • GFX API Exposure : Vulkan/DX11/DX12 Exposure
  • Scripting and automation skills (Python, Make, Airflow etc)
  • Embedded FW Development and Debugging
  • Benchmarking and Performance Analysis
  • Windows and/or Linux OS Kernel Architecture
  • C/C++, GNU Toolchain, Visual Studio
  • Formal verification - FPV and DPV experience is a plus
  • Experience with emulation/prototyping/hybridbuild and execution flows (Veloce, Palladium, Zebu, Protium, HAPS, qemu)
  • Development of synthesizable transactors, monitors, scoreboards for emulation platforms
  • Embedded FW and/or Kernel level development and debugging skills (C/C++, Makefile, gdb, uboot, uefi, kernel-mode drivers)

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail [email protected] or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies:Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.

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.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay rangeand Other Compensation & Benefits :

$141,300.00 - $211,900.00

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.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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