System Hardware Validation Engineer - Cork, Ireland

About The Role

Qualcomm offers flexible work options tailored to our employee’s needs. These include a combination of work from home and working in our brand new, state of the art office in Penrose Dock, Cork.

Well-being and life balance are fundamental to Qualcomm as an employer.  We recognise and understand that employees have missed spending quality time with loved ones and extended family. 

As such, Cork Qualcomm policy allows our employees to blend short-term remote working with annual leave.

The System Hardware Validation Engineer will work as part of Qualcomm’s SVE (System Validation Emulation) Team on leading technologies such as the Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset.  SVE have a critical impact on getting high quality functional products to millions of customers quickly and we are hiring all levels from junior to staff roles. You will be joining a team of expert low-level validation engineers with diverse backgrounds (Synthetic OS, DDR memories, sensors, security, CPUs and caching, Nucleus RTOS, embedded systems) to test Qualcomm's next generation SoCs. As part of the system validation team you will develop or port test software to evaluate new hardware IPs.

You will focus development in the areas of Driver/Firmware Development and Validation, Debug and Resolution of Issues and Software Use-Case Implementation. The successful candidate will be expected to work closely with system architects, software engineers, hardware designers and verification engineers.

Role & Responsibilities

In this role responsibilities include, although not limited to:  

• Delivery of low-level hardware drivers for Qualcomm Snapdragon Subsystems
• Manage validation and testing of the driver/hardware
• Migrate drivers to new platforms as required
• Drive innovation in software use cases
• On-going code re-factoring
• Test plan development and execution

What are we looking for?

Candidate will have a minimum of 3-5 years of experience. Candidates are expected to have:

• Experience in Low Level software development in C, C++, and Assembly.
• Excellent knowledge of ARM and RISC V processors
• Experience in automation and test/integration methodologies.
• Experience developing validation methodologies and infrastructure solutions.
• Experience with SCM tools (GIT, Perforce)
• Experience with defect tracking tools (JIRA)
• Good communication skills
• Strong debug skills

Preferred Skills

• Developing and optimizing test framework and tools to create a controlled validation environment to support large scale validation.
• Designing and defining new validation strategy as well as detailed test plans.
• Lead debug efforts for issues found during Pre-silicon and Post-silicon.
• Define, design, and execute platform Pre-Silicon and Post-Silicon validation plans for current and future products.
• Provide mentorship and technical direction to a distributed team of system validation engineers for program execution.

Educational Requirements

• Required:  Bachelors in Engineering (Masters preferred)
• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering/Science or related field

Where you will be working

Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.
There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.
A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

Equal Opportunities

We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.


What's on Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Matching pension scheme
• Education Assistance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being
• Bicycle purchase scheme
• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

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 disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com 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).