CPU Virtual Platforms Engineer

October 23, 2024

Job Description

Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering

General Summary:

As a CPU Virtual Platforms Engineer, you will be part of CPU verification team to deliver complex verification solutions at platform level for high performance CPUs. You will help define and implement platform features required for OS boot and enablement of high-level applications on these platforms. You will also help develop and tune FW and OS images suitable for running on latest generations of CPUs in pre-silicon emulation platforms.

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Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Role and Responsibilities

Work closely with CPU RTL, performance, verification, and SW teams to deliver high speed emulation virtual platforms.
Develop, create and modify OS boot images for ARM V8, V9 architecture CPUs.
Develop debug infrastructure for efficient debug of SW applications running on CPU platforms. Root cause failures to CPU feature level
Architect and develop CPU virtual platform features.
Bring-up OS boot from scratch on all CPU projects.
Work closely with emulation CAD team to resolve infrastructure issues and ensure productivity on emulation models.
Execute verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring-up, setup regressions for all the features under test, debug of the test failures.

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years of experience in working for CPU/SoC FW/SW development.
Competent in C and C++ programming. Exposure to Java is preferred.
Very Good understanding and experience of Operating System concepts, Linux Kernel, Linux Device Drivers.
Competent debugging skills and experience with Linux kernel debug tools is preferred.
Knowledge on ARM V8/V9 architectures and following areas is a plus.
ISA
Programmer's model
Virtualization extensions
Coresight Debug and Trace Architecture
Trustzone Architecture
Debugger tools like T32, OpenOCD, Lauterbach
Experience in scripting using Perl, Python or shell scripts. Experience with packaging workloads for cloud.
Knowledge on SystemVerilog and CPU/SoC simulation and emulation is a plus.

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Pay range:
$185,500.00 - $278,500.00

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