SOC Design Verification Engineer, Staff– Pre-Si/Post-Si Verification
Qualcomm · Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico ·
- Work mode
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Staff
- Category
- Hardware
- Experience
- 1+ years
Qualcomm · Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico ·
General Summary:
We are seeking motivated Engineer and Senior Engineer candidates to join our Pre-Silicon and Post-Silicon SoC Verification team. In this role, you will verify next-generation SoCs that power Mobile, AI, high-performance computing, and cloud infrastructure products. The position spans pre-silicon simulation, emulation, acceleration, and post-silicon bring-up/validation activities, with responsibilities aligned to the candidate’s experience level.
Engineer-level candidates will contribute to verification execution, debug, test development, and coverage closure under technical guidance. Senior Engineer-level candidates will additionally lead feature-level verification planning, drive complex debugs across pre-silicon and post-silicon environments, mentor junior engineers, and influence methodology improvements across projects.
Key Responsibilities – Pre-Si and Post-Si Verification:
· Develop and execute verification plans for SoC, subsystem, and IP-level features across pre-silicon and post-silicon phases.
· Build, enhance, and maintain SystemVerilog/UVM, C/C++, processor-based, emulation, and acceleration verification environments.
· Create directed, constrained-random, stress, performance, power, and system-level test scenarios to validate architecture and real-use-case behavior.
· Develop assertions, functional coverage models, checkers, scoreboards, and signoff metrics for verification closure.
· Debug RTL, testbench, emulation, firmware, ATE/vector, and silicon bring-up issues using logs, waveforms, traces, and hardware debug data.
· Support post-silicon validation, silicon characterization, ATE pattern debug, failure triage, and correlation between simulation, emulation, and silicon results.
· Drive coverage closure, regression health, bug tracking, and verification signoff using functional, code, assertion, and scenario coverage metrics.
· Participate in architecture, micro-architecture, design, validation, and test-plan reviews to ensure verification and bring-up requirements are captured early.
· Verify complex SoC features including multi-core CPU systems, cache coherency and interconnect fabrics, DDR/HBM memory subsystems, PCIe/CXL/Ethernet/high-speed interfaces, security, performance, and power-management features.
· For Engineer level: execute assigned verification tasks, develop tests and checkers, debug failures, maintain regressions, and contribute to coverage and bring-up activities.
· For Senior Engineer level: own feature/subsystem verification from plan to closure, lead debug across teams, mentor engineers, identify schedule and quality risks, and drive methodology/automation improvements.
· Contribute to reusable verification components, scripting automation, AI-assisted verification workflows, and continuous improvement of pre-silicon and post-silicon validation processes.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.Minimum Qualifications
· Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
· Engineer: typically 2+ years of relevant design verification, validation, or SoC debug experience.
· Sr. Engineer: typically 4+ years of relevant experience with demonstrated ownership of complex verification, validation, or silicon bring-up deliverables.
· Strong knowledge of System Verilog, UVM, C/C++, assertion-based verification, coverage-driven verification, and system-level use-case verification.
· Experience developing or using verification environments from architecture/specification through signoff, including regression, coverage, and debug flows.
· Understanding of post-silicon validation concepts such as bring-up, ATE/vector debug, silicon failure triage, hardware/software interaction, or correlation with pre-silicon results.
· Strong understanding of computer architecture, digital design fundamentals, and SoC integration concepts.
· Excellent communication, collaboration, ownership, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications *
· Experience with one or more of the following pre-silicon or post-silicon domains:
· CPU, subsystem, or full-chip SoC verification
· Cache coherency protocols such as ACE, CHI, or CXL
· DDR, LPDDR, or HBM memory subsystems
· PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, networking, or high-speed interface verification
· AI/ML accelerator, security, RAS, performance, or power feature verification
· Post-silicon bring-up, silicon validation, ATE pattern debug, shmoo/debug analysis, or silicon failure triage
· Experience with emulation/acceleration platforms such as Veloce, Palladium, or ZeBu, and correlation between simulation, emulation, and silicon results.
· Silicon validation (Debug using Trace32) experience is preferred
· Experience with Portable Stimulus, formal verification, power-aware verification, firmware-driven validation, or hardware/software co-verification.
· Proficiency in Python, Perl, shell scripting, or other automation languages for regression, debug, data analysis, and productivity improvements.
· For Sr. Engineer candidates: demonstrated ability to lead feature closure, coordinate across design/validation/test/software teams, mentor engineers, and communicate technical risks to stakeholders.
Preferred Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a hands-on verification engineer who is passionate about solving complex technical challenges and delivering high-quality silicon. They should possess strong debugging skills, a solid understanding of SoC architecture, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Why Join Us?
You will be part of a team developing next-generation Mobile and Data Center Solutions.
This involves hardware design verification of advanced Wireless, CPUs, Memory architecture, AI Accelerators, and high-speed connectivity technologies. This role offers significant growth opportunities while working alongside industry-leading engineers on some of the most challenging SoC verification problems in the semiconductor industry.
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