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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.\nExcellent Opportunity to work on cutting-edge SoCs across multiple product segments, including:\nPremium mobile and flagship platforms\nData center\nAI Accelerator platform\nRole Overview:\nThe team is currently seeking candidate specifically for SOC Infrastructure/NoC, Power and Performance Validation in pre-silicon emulation and post-silicon of industry-leading, next generation Premium-Tier Mobile & AI Accelerator platform. An ideal candidate is expected to have an excellent understanding of digital design fundamentals, on-chip interconnects, writing content to validate and analyze SOC bus architecture, performance and power.\nRoles & Responsibilities:\nCome up with thorough performance validation plans and work closely with team members to ensure Performance-Power trade-offs are factored in\nSOC Bandwidth, QoS, Latency and Throughput analysis \nMinimum Requirements:\nBS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.\n5+ years of experience in silicon validation, or platform bring-up.\nInterconnect architectures - NoCs, AXI, AHB etc. Knowledge of upstream and downstream operations and the ability to write programs to stress their transactions for appropriate coverage\nSolid expertise in various FIFO designs and related performance/functionality aspects\nMemory hierarchy and caches - coherency, consistency (ordering), memory types and attributes, synchronization & semaphores, full-system concurrency, MTE, MPAM\nThorough understanding of CPU and DDR concepts, Multimedia, GPU, Peripherals\nSystem low power modes, Dynamic clock and voltage scaling operations, Interrupt architecture\nDebug architecture - interactions with JTAG based debuggers, state dump scripts\nIn depth debugging experience for Complex HW and SW issues\nExperience working with Perfmon architecture -performance counters, telemetry data, and hardware/software co-optimization.\nDrive correlation between pre-silicon models, emulation platforms, and silicon performance measurements.\nEvaluate AI inference and training workloads to ensure optimal throughput, latency, memory bandwidth, and power-performance efficiency.\nContribute to methodology development for performance characterization, benchmarking, and KPI tracking across product generations.\nCreate performance dashboards, reports, and technical reviews for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.\nExperience in embedded systems/expertise in C, C++, Python and assembly languages. Design and Implementation of drivers and test content\nLogical thinking and problem-solving ability with focus on Power, Performance and SoC System feature validation\nFundamental understanding of Static, Leakage and Dynamic power in a semiconductor design\nFamiliarity in debug tools including JTAG and kernel debuggers \nPreferred Qualification:\nStrong understanding of computer architecture, AI/ML accelerators, memory hierarchy, cache coherency, and on-chip interconnects.\nKnowledge of AI/ML workloads, tensor operations, matrix multiplication, transformer models, and large-scale inference systems.\nFamiliarity with System level debug, silicon bring-up\nMinimum Qualifications:\n• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.OR\nMaster's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.\nOR\nPhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.\nApplicants: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. 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We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).\nQualcomm 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.\nTo 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. 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