Company: Engineering Group, Engineering Group ASICS Engineering General Summary: Qualcomm's System 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 and system-level validation enablement, offering deep exposure to Qualcomm SoCs through bare-metal validation content, scalable automation frameworks, and complex system debugs. 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. Data center We are seeking a highly experienced system validation engineer for test planning, content development, and execution for next-generation AI accelerator platform This role owns end-to-end system-level validation content across emulation and silicon phases while partnering with Architecture, Design, DV, Software, Performance, Power, and Product teams to ensure comprehensive coverage and successful product execution. The idóneo candidate combines strong SoC architecture knowledge, validation expertise, technical leadership, and program management skills to lead geographically distributed engineering teams and deliver high-quality validation solutions at scale. Define, develop, and optimize validation tests for multi-processor systems with a focus on system level concurrency. Develop and maintain bare-metal software, including low-level hardware interfaces, register and interrupt programming, and clock and power management.



Collaborate with hardware and software teams to define and validate system level software use cases. Implement and optimize algorithms for performance, power efficiency, and memory footprint. BS or MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field. Strong understanding of operating systems concepts, caching, virtual memory, and embedded software fundamentals. Experience with bare-metal software development and low-level hardware interfaces. Experience programming in C, Assembly language. Some exposure to scripting language (Python, Linux shell, etc.). Experience with developing and applying machine learning models for system validation. Verilog, VHDL) and use the knowledge in the context of silicon validation. Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. 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 that those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

📌 System Validation Engineer (Tijuana)
🏢 QUALCOMM
📍 Tijuana