Qualcomm
SoC Power Validation Engineer
$122K–$183K
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: 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience; master’s: 1+ year; PhD: no experience minimum stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, or related field; master’s or PhD alternatives are stated. Required education also specifies Computer and/or Electrical Engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Green card or Citizenship preferred.
About the job
Validates SoC power, thermal, and performance at the pre-silicon and post-silicon stages, analyzes results, and helps optimize chipset power consumption.
What you'll do
- Run power, thermal, and performance correlation, regression, PVT testing, and Vmin/Fmax measurements; analyze and characterize results.
- Collaborate on validation plans, identify risks, document findings, and debug low-level hardware and software issues.
- Automate validation, data collection, and analysis using Python or similar scripting languages.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 2+ years of relevant ASIC experience; or a master’s degree and 1+ year; or a PhD.
- Understanding of SoC power and low-power techniques, system architecture, and digital design fundamentals.
- Ability to debug low-level hardware and software issues and automate validation using Python or similar scripting languages.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with prompt engineering to utilize AI.
- Experience in silicon parametric testing/characterization (Vmin/Power); knowledge of C, lab equipment, JTAG, or Lauterbach Trace32 is also noted.
Pay
$121,800.00 - $182,600.00 USD base salary
Tools
Python, C, JTAG, Lauterbach Trace32, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes
AI focus
Familiarity with prompt engineering to utilize AI is preferred.
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