CPU Emulation Engineer Multiple Levels

Company: Qualcomm
Location: San Diego
Posted on: April 22, 2025

Job Description:

Company:Qualcomm India Private LimitedJob Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware EngineeringGeneral Summary:Job Overview:As a CPU Emulation Engineer, you will work as part of CPU verification team to deliver emulation-based solutions for CPU team. You will work closely with all disciplines of CPU team to help verify and validate high performance CPUs.Role and Responsibilities

• Work closely with CPU RTL, performance, verification and SW teams to deliver emulation-based solutions.
• Architect and develop test bench infrastructure in C/C++ and Systemverilog for enabling CPU emulation across different platforms.
• Develop verification methodology, ensuring scalable and portable environment across simulation and emulation.
• Debug emulation performance and area issues to efficiently use emulation resources.
• Develop environment to run verification test cases, OS boot, performance benchmarks and other vectors.
• Develop debugging methodology to enable efficient debug and root causing of CPU functional and performance issues.
• Develop and maintain emulation environment to collect metrics related to emulation environment.
• 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, regression enabling for all features under your care, debug of the test failures.Preferred Qualifications
  • 5+ years of experience with emulation platforms - Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, FPGAs.
  • Experience with synthesizing and optimizing designs and verification components developed in synthesizable Verilog.
  • Experience with C/C++ DPI transactors and monitors.
  • Experience in scripting using Perl, Python or shell scripts. Experience with packaging workloads for cloud.
  • Experience with debugging ARM CPU based designs. Knowledge on ARM ISA and programmers' model is a plus.
  • Experience with Linux boot and firmware aspects is a plus.
  • Experience with CPU architecture and micro-architecture is a plus.Minimum Qualifications:
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
    • OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
    • OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.Applicants: 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 or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found . Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able to participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities.Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.
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