GPU Design Verification Engineer

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking an engineer to architect, design, implement, verify, and optimize the performance and power of GPU cores. This role involves pre- and post-silicon verification to ensure correctness, performance, and power goals are met.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute key independent tasks toward program requirements.
• Apply graphics knowledge to architect, design, implement, and verify GPU hardware, drivers, features, applications, and tools.
• Create and maintain verification test benches and environments in System Verilog/UVM.
• Leverage advanced testing frameworks to generate and recreate real-world system integration conditions.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Software, Firmware, Design, Modeling, Emulation, and Post-silicon validation teams to define and develop test methodology and content.
• Participate in GPU architecture and micro-architecture reviews.
• Collect, organize, and execute system-level test content, including directed test cases, gaming benchmarks, standards compliance test suites, and system-level scenarios.
• Build automation for continuous integration and testing based on the latest GPU IP.
• Collect and analyze test results using straightforward statistics and data predictions to track benchmarks and identify issues.
• Work with team members to align on the narrow scope of feature development and meet targets.
• Write technical documentation and feature descriptions for straightforward projects under supervision.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• OR Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of related work experience.
• OR PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• Verification skills: Test planning, scripting, simulation, problem-solving, and debug.
• Proficiency in System Verilog, UVM, Verilog or VHDL, and C/C++.
• Experience with constrained random testing, functional coverage development, and design debug.
• Exposure to Emulation/Prototyping Platforms (Veloce, Palladium, Zebu, FPGA).
• Master's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant GPU experience (either external or internal).

Preferred Skills

• Experience in GPU-based verification.
• System or sub-system level verification.
• Concurrency, preemption, and stress testing frameworks.
• Testbench architecture and implementation.
• Exposure to GFX APIs: Vulkan/DX11/DX12.
• Scripting and automation skills (Python, Make, Airflow, etc.).
• Embedded firmware development and debugging.
• Benchmarking and performance analysis.
• Windows and/or Linux OS kernel architecture.
• C/C++, GNU Toolchain, Visual Studio.
• Formal verification (FPV and DPV) experience is a plus.
• Experience with emulation/prototyping/hybrid build and execution flows (Veloce, Palladium, Zebu, Protium, HAPS, qemu).
• Development of synthesizable transactors, monitors, and scoreboards for emulation platforms.
• Embedded firmware and/or kernel-level development and debugging skills (C/C++, Makefile, gdb, uboot, uefi, kernel-mode drivers).

Pay

$161,800.00 - $273,400.00

Benefits

• Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
• Annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for the annual bonus).
• Comprehensive benefits package designed to support work, home, and personal life.