CPU Architecture Validation Infrastructure Engineer

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:

Focus Areas:

Experience Required: 4 to 15 Years

· Development and maintenance of CPU subsystem validation infrastructure, involving both bare-metal and OS-based full-stack environments (such as TFA, Linux, hypervisor, TEE).

· Execution and debugging of functional validation for custom CPU features.

· Enablement and validation of low-power and DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling) features for CPU domains.

· Debugging and profiling support across bare-metal and full-stack environments.

Required Skills:

CPU Microarchitecture Knowledge:

· ARM v8/v9 architecture (preferred).

· Low-level firmware and architecture-specific code.

Subsystem Fundamentals:

· Caches, MMU, interrupts, debug subsystems, and exception handling.

Software-Hardware Stack Expertise:

· Experience with one or more of RTOS, Linux kernel, trusted firmware, hypervisors, and device drivers.

· Strong bring-up and debugging skills in complex environments.

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