PostSi Debug Validation Engineer

Company

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering

General Summary

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

We are Hiring Post-Silicon Validation Engineers! We are seeking highly motivated engineers to join the Post-Silicon Customer Engineering & Debug team for Oryon Custom CPU-based products across flagship mobile, compute, automotive, and Data center platforms. This role sits at the intersection of silicon, software, and customer engagement, driving root-cause analysis and resolution of complex customer-reported issues.

Are you passionate about CPU architecture and solving some of the toughest silicon challenges? We’re growing the Oryon CPU Customer Engineering Post-Silicon team and are looking for engineer who thrive on deep technical debugging and validation.

What You’ll Work On

Own end-to-end debug and resolution of customer issues involving CPU crashes, hangs, watchdog resets, performance issues, power abnormalities, boot failures, and silicon marginalities Root-causing complex functional and microarchitectural issues using silicon traces, scan dumps, ETM/PTM, and debug infrastructure Cross-functional collaboration with CPU Architecture, RTL, Design Verification, Physical Design, DFT, Firmware, and SoC teams to drive issues to closure Troubleshoot complex hardware, firmware, and electrical issues (like signal integrity, boot failures, or interface bugs) * Enabling world-class quality for next-generation flagship mobile processors

We’re looking for engineers with 7-10 years of relevant experience in:

✔ CPU microarchitecture and ARM architecture fundamentals

✔ Post-silicon validation, debug, or silicon bring-up

✔ Understanding of SoC architecture, interconnects, memory subsystems, and multi-core CPU systems

✔ Pipeline, cache, memory subsystem, coherency, and exception/debug flows

✔ Assembly, C/C++, Python, and automation

✔ Strong analytical thinking and systematic root-cause debugging

Location - Bengaluru, India

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