Senior Staff Formal Verification Engineer

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QCT's Digital ASIC design team delivers cutting edge hardware and software products that power the user experience and graphics content of the most advanced mobile devices on the market.

Graphics formal verification positions involve the development of high‑quality formal verification test benches to verify complex designs in GPU. The position involves working with design and implementation teams to verify designs with high quality. Candidates must be proficient in debugging, deep bug hunting, formal tools, formal verification methodologies and processes. They should also be proficient in design debug and assertion development.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of software engineering, hardware engineering, systems engineering, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of software engineering, hardware engineering, systems engineering, or related work experience.
• PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of software engineering, hardware engineering, systems engineering, or related work experience.

Job Description:

• Synthesize the Verilog RTL and create models and compile them to emulators like Veloce/Palladium/Zebu and/or FPGA platforms.
• Develop all aspects of hardware emulator implementation, with emphasis on design partitioning, synthesis, place and route, timing analysis & run time performance.
• Drive debug failures on emulator using latest technologies. Work with designers and SW driver team for test plan and debug.
• Work with tool vendors and push the methodology to improve the area/performance of the synthesized FPGA RTL.
• Work on third‑party IP integration and system‑level debugging.
• System level RTL simulation & design verification.
• Support chip bring‑up and post‑silicon debug.
• Debug functional and timing models.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Science, Engineering, or closely related field.
• 1+ years of hands‑on experience in emulation/simulation acceleration/FPGA.
• 1+ years in design validation/Post‑silicon debug.
• 1+ years of hands‑on experience creating high‑performance & area‑efficient emulation environments from RTL.
• 1+ years of hands‑on experience in emulator platforms, platform bring‑up, digital design, verification, debugging, and waveform viewers.
• 1+ Hardware emulators, such as Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce, or FPGA systems based on Xilinx or Altera FPGAs.
• 1+ Emulation methodologies, including in‑circuit emulation, hybrid systems, or simulation acceleration.

Desirable Skills:

• MS degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent; 1 year of practical experience.
• Design Verification knowledge – UVM/System Verilog preferred.
• Knowledge of GPU/CPU/DDR/Bus preferred.
• Verilog and System Verilog experience.
• Debugging system‑level software, Debug RTL.
• Programming skills in C and C++.
• Scripting in Python, Tcl, or Perl.
• Knowledge of Vendor Emulation tools/Xilinx tools/Synthesis tools.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$195,200.00 - $292,800.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales‑incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at link.

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