Qualcomm
SOC Verification and Methodology Engineer
$174K–$262K
San Diego, California · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- The posting lists 10+ years of design verification experience; minimum qualification alternatives are 6+ years with a bachelor’s degree, 5+ with a master’s, or 4+ with a PhD. Preferred qualifications also list 15+ years’ industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, or related field; alternatively, a master’s degree or PhD in those fields is listed in the minimum qualifications.
About the job
Verifies Qualcomm SoC designs by developing verification plans and infrastructure, executing tests, debugging issues, and validating design IPs and system-level integration.
What you'll do
- Develop verification plans, test plans, and verification infrastructure from design specifications.
- Implement and execute tests; debug issues and analyze SystemVerilog assertions and code, toggle, and functional coverage.
- Collaborate with architecture, design, and pre- and post-silicon teams, and improve verification methodologies.
What they ask for
- SystemVerilog/UVM verification experience, including assertion- and coverage-based methods.
- Experience handling verification from test planning through tapeout for large hardware designs.
- Minimum qualifications specify a bachelor’s degree and 6+ years, a master’s degree and 5+ years, or a PhD and 4+ years in ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work.
- Strong communication skills for collaboration with worldwide teams.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree; 15+ years’ industry experience is also listed as a preferred qualification.
- SoC/CPU architecture, ARM SBSA, multi-die or D2D verification, emulation, power verification, scripting, or formal tools experience.
Pay
$174,400.00 - $261,600.00 (base salary)
Tools
SystemVerilog, UVM, ARM, AMBA Bus, DDR, GPU, Perl, Python
AI focus
The role verifies SoC designs for product areas that include Machine Learning (AI/ML); no specific AI development duties are stated.
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