Verification Software Engineer at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. — San Diego, USA | Base Career

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This position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.

Educational Requirement

BS in E lectrical, Computer Science, or the equivalent

Experience Requirement

open to new graduates and individuals with a few years of experience

Qualcomm’s Modem/Chiplet Validation & Emulation (SVE) team is part of the central SoC validation organization responsible for ensuring end-to-end silicon quality across pre- and post-silicon phases .

This role focuses on content quality, validation frameworks, and system-level validation enablement , offering deep exposure to Qualcomm SoCs through bare-metal validation content , scalable automation frameworks, and complex system debug.

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.

Excellent Opportunity to work on cutting-edge SoCs & RF Chips across multiple product segments , including:

Data center-class silicon
Premium mobile and flagship platforms

Exposure to diverse system architectures, workloads, and performance/power challenges across domain.

Ability to build scalable validation solutions that extend from mobile to server-grade systems

Sve Team Skill Requirements (Executive Summary)

SoC/System Validation Expertise – End-to-end pre-silicon and post-silicon validation, bring-up, system integration, and silicon debug.
Hardware-Software Co-Debug – Strong debugging across SoC architecture, embedded software, firmware, drivers, and hardware interfaces.

Design and enhance digital baseband verification code : General understanding of RF baseband (y1y2, I/Q) and IF functionality for 4/5/6G processing Working understanding of RF front end and RF test equipment Work with RF HW designers to create C/Python code to test HW engines from System Vectors
General understanding of RF baseband (y1y2, I/Q) and IF functionality for 4/5/6G processing
Working understanding of RF front end and RF test equipment
Work with RF HW designers to create C/Python code to test HW engines from System Vectors
Build infrastructure for: Functional verification of the RF HW that can be leveraged into performance tests Concurrency and stress testing
Functional verification of the RF HW that can be leveraged into performance tests
Concurrency and stress testing
Improve framework capabilities for: Reproducibility and debug turnaround Performance and scalability across SKUs/platforms Analyze & debug failures
Reproducibility and debug turnaround
Performance and scalability across SKUs/platforms
Analyze & debug failures

Digital high speed links over SERDES

Design and enhance scalable validation frameworks for: Bring-up a high-speed digital link. Basic understanding of Digital to analog/SERDES environment Develop and create a Logging and failure analysis. Collaborate with the SERDES and digital designers to translate analog/digital requirements into C code
Bring-up a high-speed digital link. Basic understanding of Digital to analog/SERDES environment
Develop and create a Logging and failure analysis.
Collaborate with the SERDES and digital designers to translate analog/digital requirements into C code
Build infrastructure for: Driver development of the (custom) High Speed link Concurrency and stress testing
Driver development of the (custom) High Speed link
Concurrency and stress testing
Improve framework capabilities for: Reproducibility and debug turnaround Performance and scalability across SKUs/platforms Analyze & debug failures
Reproducibility and debug turnaround
Performance and scalability across SKUs/platforms
Analyze & debug failures

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Verification Software Engineer

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