Drimva

Qualcomm

System Validation Lead (Premium Mobile Platforms)

$174K–$262K

San Diego, California +4 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026

Location
San Diego, California
Austin, Texas
Folsom, California
Hillsboro, Oregon
Santa Clara, California
Experience
8+ years in the listed SoC-related areas. The posting's separate minimum qualifications state 6+ years with a bachelor's, 5+ with a master's, or 4+ with a PhD in ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work.
Education
Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field. Minimum qualifications also state a degree in Science, Engineering, or related field.

About the job

Leads end-to-end system-level validation strategy, content development, execution, and cross-functional delivery for next-generation premium mobile and AI accelerator SoC platforms across emulation and silicon phases.

What you'll do

  • Define validation strategies and plans, including risk-based stress, power, performance, scalability, and corner-case testing.
  • Own validation content roadmaps, quality, stabilization, qualification, regression, and release milestones.
  • Lead technical debugging and global cross-functional program execution, while mentoring engineers and advancing validation methods.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; the posting also lists degree-and-experience alternatives in its minimum qualifications.
  • 8+ years in SoC validation, bring-up, architecture validation, firmware, or system software; minimum qualifications separately state 6+ years with a bachelor's, 5+ with a master's, or 4+ with a PhD in related ASIC work.
  • Strong understanding of modern SoC architectures, including CPUs, memory subsystems, interconnects and NoC, power management, security and virtualization, and peripheral subsystems.
  • Proven pre-silicon and post-silicon validation experience, strong debugging and root-cause analysis, and technical leadership across geographically distributed teams.

Nice to have

  • Validation leadership for flagship mobile, compute, AI, automotive, or server-class SoCs; system-level content and validation framework expertise.
  • Emulation experience; knowledge of performance, power, reliability, and production-screening methodologies; automation, analytics, or AI-based engineering productivity experience.

Pay

$174,400.00 - $261,600.00 (base salary)

Tools

ARM, DDR, HBM, LLCC, NoC, Veloce, RUMI, FPGA

AI focus

Champion innovative AI/GenAI-driven validation methodologies and influence AI-driven validation workflows; AI-based engineering productivity solutions are preferred experience.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)