DDR IP Validation and Firmware Development Engineer
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Job description
Qualcomm is hiring a DDR IP Validation and Firmware Development Engineer — a full-time, based in Bangalore, India role. Apply directly on Qualcomm's careers page below.
DDR IP validation and Firmware development (Senior/Lead/Staff)
Location: Bangalore, India
Department: ASICS Engineering
Work Location: onsite
Company:
Qualcomm India Private LimitedJob Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS EngineeringGeneral Summary:
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm ASIC Engineer, you will define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for a variety of high performance, high quality, low power world class products. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional groups to determine product execution path.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
Understand the IP architecture, work with IP Design/Verification teams to understand the validation requirements, develop/port/enhance the validation software content and bring up.
Develop good quality Firmware, understand complex SW scenarios and debug the Firmware issues.
Interface with Design/Software and other teams for the test plan and debugs.
Validate the IP Functionality, expose weakness, find bugs and root cause them
Use silicon debug hooks to measure power/performance/coverage and other KPI metrics
Work with minimal Supervision. Mentor/guide junior co-workers.
Good verbal and written communication skills
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's/Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer science Engineering.
2 - 10 years Hardware Engineering experience or related work experience.
Excellent understanding of Embedded systems, Soc Architecture, Processor Architecture and Memory interfacing.
Excellent C expertise and hands-on experience on Firmware development/debug
Must have Experience in IP Validation
Experience in DDR and other High speed protocols is added advantage.
Exposure to working on emulation/pre-si environment.
Exposure to instruments like oscilloscope, Logic analyzer or any other instruments.
Using JTAG based debuggers, compilers/linkers
Should have good exposure to software development life cycle-Exposure to SoC architecture paradigms interconnects, power management,
Knowledge of JTAG based debuggers/compilers/linkers.
Software development for silicon enablement, silicon validation
Exposure to scripting language preferably python
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Frequently asked questions
What skills are required for DDR IP Validation and Firmware Development Engineer at Qualcomm?
The required skills for DDR IP Validation and Firmware Development Engineer at Qualcomm include: Embedded Systems, C, Python.
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DDR IP Validation and Firmware Development Engineer at Qualcomm is a Senior / Staff / Manager level position.
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