Qualcomm
Senior Emulation Performance Methodology & Debug Engineer
$122K–$183K
San Diego, California +4 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, California
Austin, Texas
Folsom, California
Hillsboro, Oregon
Santa Clara, California - Experience
- Minimum: Bachelor's degree and 2+ years; OR Master's degree and 1+ year; OR PhD. Preferred: 5+ years in emulation and silicon environments.
- Education
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.
About the job
Develops and supports SoC pre-silicon emulation platforms, methodologies, and debug for ASIC designs.
What you'll do
- Develop and deploy uniform emulation build-generation and debug methodologies across FPGA-based platforms.
- Support pre-silicon prototyping, enablement, bring-up, and debug of SoC designs and emulation hardware/software.
- Collaborate across sites and with vendors, architects, designers, verification and software engineers, and customers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of relevant ASIC work; OR a Master's degree and 1+ year; OR a PhD.
- Expertise in Verilog / SystemVerilog.
- Proficiency in Python and TCL scripting.
- Experience with C programming.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of experience working in emulation and silicon environments.
- Experience with FPGA platforms and tools, timing closure, JTAG, and kernel debuggers.
Pay
$121,800.00 - $182,600.00 USD base salary
Tools
FPGA Prototyping, Veloce, Palladium, Verilog, SystemVerilog, C, Python, TCL
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