GPU Validation and Emulation Engineer - Qualcomm - Cambridge, UK

Company Qualcomm Technologies International Ltd

Job Area Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary The Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU takes PC platforms and mobile UI, games, and advanced graphics applications to the next level, providing users with stunning visuals and high-performance video streaming, enabling enhanced AI processing, and next-gen mobile gaming while optimizing power consumption. As a Qualcomm GPU Engineer, you may architect, design, implement, verify, and/or optimize the performance and power of GPU cores. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet and exceed customer needs.

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 testplan 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

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or closely related field
• 3+ years of hands on experience in emulation/simulation acceleration/FPGA.
• 2+ years of hands on experience in creating high performance & area efficient emulation environments from RTL.
• 2+ years of hands on emulator platforms, platform bringup, digital design, verification, debugging, and waveform viewers
• 2+ Hardware emulators, such as Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce, or FPGA systems based on Xilinx or Altera FPGAs
• 2+ Emulation methodologies, including in-circuit emulation, hybrid systems, or simulation acceleration

Desirable Skills

• MS degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent; 2 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

Please note this role is based full time in our Cambridge office Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

• References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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