Drimva

Qualcomm

SoC Clock & Power Management Validation Lead, Staff (AI Accelerator Platform)

$146K–$218K

San Diego, California +4 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026

Location
San Diego, California
Austin, Texas
Folsom, California
Hillsboro, Oregon
Santa Clara, California
Experience
5+ years of relevant experience; minimum qualifications alternatively specify 4+ years with a bachelor’s degree, 3+ with a master’s, or 2+ with a PhD.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field; minimum qualifications also list a bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

About the job

Leads end-to-end pre- and post-silicon validation of clock, power, reset, and power-management architectures for AI accelerator SoCs, including test development, automation, bring-up, and issue debugging.

What you'll do

  • Plan, document, review, and execute bare-metal validation for clock and power architectures across standalone and system-level scenarios.
  • Develop C drivers and tests, and automate validation workflows using Python, Perl, and shell.
  • Debug pre- and post-silicon issues, guide root-cause analysis, and support power-subsystem bring-up and production readiness.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field, or the stated alternative degree and experience combinations.
  • 5+ years of relevant SoC validation or associated experience; the minimum qualifications also state 4+ years with a bachelor’s, 3+ with a master’s, or 2+ with a PhD.
  • Prior work experience in clock/power validation.
  • Proficiency in C and Python; experience with lab instruments and exposure to debug tools such as JTAG.

Nice to have

  • Experience with cross-compilers, linkers, and makefiles; understanding of coherency and concurrency in modern SoCs.
  • Knowledge of PMIC and rail-power validation, FPGA-based emulation, or RTL/HDLs such as Verilog/System Verilog.

Pay

$145,600.00 - $218,400.00 USD base salary

Tools

C, Python, Perl, shell, JTAG, ARM, Verilog, System Verilog

AI focus

Validates clock, power, reset, and power-management systems for AI accelerator platforms, including operation under AI training and inference workloads.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)