Qualcomm
PST Validation Engineer
$101K–$152K
San Diego, California +4 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, California
Austin, Texas
Folsom, California
Hillsboro, Oregon
Santa Clara, California - Experience
- Bachelor's degree plus 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience; OR master's degree plus 1+ year of such experience; OR PhD. Preferred: 6+ months in specified tool, scripting/programming, or design verification areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field; OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field; OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.
About the job
Validates and characterizes Qualcomm silicon and SoC emulation, debugging hardware and software issues and automating test and analysis workflows.
What you'll do
- Bring up silicon and measure, correlate, characterize, and analyze Vmin/Fmax, power, and thermal data across PVTs and SoC IPs.
- Debug low-level software and hardware issues and manage emulation builds, tests, and failure resolution with cross-functional teams.
- Automate validation flows, data collection, and analysis using Python or similar scripting languages.
What they ask for
- Understanding of mobile chip architecture, basic RTL, and transistor power fundamentals.
- Knowledge of regression and PVT testing, including data analysis and metric extraction.
- Experience debugging low-level software and hardware with tools such as JTAG and kernel debuggers.
- Experience architecting and developing test bench infrastructure for CPU/SoC emulation across platforms.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
- 6+ months of experience with architecture and design tools, scripting tools and programming languages, or design verification methods.
Pay
$101,400.00 - $152,200.00 USD base salary
Tools
JTAG, Lauterbach Trace32, C, Python, RTL, CPU, GPU, DDR
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