Qualcomm
CPU Emulation Engineer
$176K–$263K
Santa Clara, California · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years with a bachelor’s degree, 3+ years with a master’s degree, or 2+ years with a PhD in relevant work. Preferred: 5+ years with emulation platforms.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
About the job
Develops and maintains emulation-based infrastructure and verification methods to validate high-performance CPUs across platforms.
What you'll do
- Builds C/C++ and SystemVerilog test-bench infrastructure and portable verification environments for CPU emulation.
- Enables and runs verification tests, OS boot, benchmarks, and regressions; debugs failures and emulation performance or area issues.
- Works with CPU and emulation CAD teams to resolve infrastructure issues and collect emulation metrics.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a listed engineering or computer science field and 4+ years of relevant work experience; OR master’s degree and 3+ years; OR PhD and 2+ years.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of experience with emulation platforms such as Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, or FPGAs.
- Experience with synthesizable Verilog, C/C++ DPI transactors and monitors, scripting, or packaging workloads for cloud; listed CPU, RISC-V, Linux, and firmware knowledge is also a plus.
Pay
$175,600.00 - $263,400.00 USD (base salary)
Tools
C/C++, Systemverilog, Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, FPGAs, Verilog, Perl, Python
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