Job description:
Qualcomm is conducting an interview for the post of PMIC Systems/Firmware/Validation Engineer.
Job duties and responsibilities:
This job/role is to perform System-level Validation (VI) on a limited quantity of Post-Silicon (Post-Si) HW testbenches, to ensure high quality of PMIC-System Hardware (HW) & Firmware (FW) design-deliverables – over a highly-complex & continuously-evolving product landscape.
As an applicant for this role, you will have to come up with a comprehensive VI-plan covering various user scenarios, identify individual granular test-cases & prepare to execute all steps within available test framework – based on the requirements of each PMIC-System in a Chipset-solution.
These test-cases, as appropriate will have to be run (manual & automated), starting from PMIC stand-alone IC-level (on daughter-card) and expanding progressively to bigger Chipset/System-level (test-phone-device) testing, including multi-event concurrencies.
One of your important contributions will be to envision new test-cases and enhance validation-coverage via automating test-execution & results-validation.
Additionally, you will act as Point-of-Contact from the PMIC-SVI team to PMIC design & characterization teams as well as various other SoC HW/SW validation teams, Chipset-Power Measurement, CoreBSP-SW and Customer-Engineering teams.
You will need to take ownership of activities like aligning & updating test-procedures in accordance with ever-changing PMIC-architecture & system-state flows; as well as recreating issues reported by other teams / customers, capturing signals/logs for the purpose of debugging, validating workarounds/fixes, and assessing the confidence vs risk of your validation-effort before the PMIC-System solution is ready for commercial mass-production.
Education requirements:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering is a must.
- Master’s degree is preferred.
Minimum qualifications:
Qualcomm is looking for applicants with 0-3 years (Masters) of relevant job-experience – to work with other teams on Module-level (IP in Chip) to end-Product validation, issues recreation & log collection.
Applicants must have industrial exposure of product-development via Systems Validation role in VLSI/Embedded-Systems domain.
Preferred qualifications:
- Applicants should also have exposure to basic-firmware & HW-SW interaction. They should also have strong hands-on lab-experience in Post-Si Validation of Mixed-signal (Analog/Digital) IP.
- Candidates experienced in validating systems that are a combination of HW & FW (microcontroller based) would be highly preferred.
Preferred skills required:
- Hands-on ability & comfort in using various lab instruments like oscilloscopes, power supplies, JTAG debuggers etc.
- Good programming skills in at least one of the following: C#, F#, Python, Perl, LabVIEW or any other scripting language (in VLSI/Embedded Domain)
- Reasonable understanding of digital and analog circuit design concepts – esp. microcontrollers, DC-DC voltage-regulators, communication-protocols (e.g., I2C, SPMI)
- Familiarity with HW schematics and ability to trace inter connections on a PCB.
- Good analytical & communication (verbal/written) skills. Ability to seek information pro-actively, understand priorities and juggle multiple tasks in a highly paced environment.
- Experience in automating test-cases via SW-control for HW-systems Experience in coming up with top-level test-plan and breaking it down to individual test cases.
- Prior experience in leading & executing white-box validation efforts of a HW-module or sub-module, is a big plus.
- Exposure to Assembly-programming (for microcontroller) is good-to-have. Exposure to tools like JIRA and GIT are a plus.
Job/Req. ID: 3042592
Company: Qualcomm
Location: Bangalore, KA
Job Category: Electronics or VLSI Engineering
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