PMIC Systems Validation Engineer Associate

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 whats 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:

• Associates degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Engineering, or related field.
  
  
  

Additional Job Description

Job Responsibilities

This job/role is to architect & code the FW required for the PMIC microcontroller and perform System-level Validation (VI) on a limited quantity of Post-Silicon (Post-Si) HW testbenches, to ensure high quality of PMIC-System Hardware (HW) & Firmware (FW) design-deliverables – over a highly-complex & continuously-evolving product landscape.

As an applicant for this role, you will have to define a flow chart and then code up the required sequences for PMIC Boot, Reset and Fault cases. A comprehensive VI-plan covering various user scenarios, identify individual granular test-cases & prepare to execute all steps within available test framework - based on the requirements of each PMIC-System in a Chipset-solution. These test-cases, as appropriate will have to be run (manual & automated), starting from PMIC stand-alone IC-level (on daughter-card) and expanding progressively to bigger Chipset/System-level (test-phone-device) testing, including multi-event concurrencies. One of your important contributions will be to envision new test-cases and enhance validation-coverage via automating test-execution & results-validation. Additionally, you will act as Point-of-Contact from the PMIC-SVI team to PMIC design & characterization teams as well as various other SoC HW/SW validation teams, Chipset-Power Measurement, CoreBSP-SW and Customer-Engineering teams. You will need to take ownership of activities like aligning & updating test-procedures in accordance with ever-changing PMIC-architecture & system-state flows; as well as recreating issues reported by other teams / customers, capturing signals/logs for the purpose of

debugging, validating workarounds/fixes, and assessing the confidence vs risk of your validation-effort before the PMIC-System solution is ready for commercial mass-production.

Education Requirements

A Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering is a must. Master’s degree is preferred.

Minimum Qualifications

We are looking for applicants with 2 -6 years (Btech/Masters) of relevant job-experience – to work with other teams on Module-level (IP in Chip) to end-Product validation, issues recreation & log collection.

Applicants must have industrial exposure of product-development via Systems Validation role in VLSI/Embedded-Systems domain.

Preferred Qualifications

Applicants should also have exposure to basic-firmware & HW-SW interaction. They should also have strong hands-on lab-experience in Post-Si Validation of Mixed-signal (Analog/Digital) IP.

Candidates experienced in validating systems that are a combination of HW & FW (microcontroller based) would be highly preferred.

Skill Sets Preferred/required (of Descending Order Of Importance):

• Hands-on ability & comfort in using various lab instruments like oscilloscopes, power supplies, JTAG debuggers etc.
• Good programming skills in at least one of the following: C#, F#, Python, Perl, LabVIEW or any other scripting language (in VLSI/Embedded Domain)
• Reasonable understanding of digital and analog circuit design concepts – esp. microcontrollers, DC-DC voltage-regulators, communication-protocols (e.g., I2C, SPMI)
• Familiarity with HW schematics and ability to trace inter connections on a PCB.
• Good analytical & communication (verbal/written) skills.
• Ability to seek information pro-actively, understand priorities and juggle multiple tasks in a highly paced environment.
• Experience in automating test-cases via SW-control for HW-systems
• Experience in coming up with top-level test-plan and breaking it down to individual test cases.
• Prior experience in leading & executing white-box validation efforts of a HW-module or sub-module, is a big plus.
• Exposure to Assembly-programming (for microcontroller) is good-to-have.
• Exposure to tools like JIRA and GIT are a plus.
  
  
  

Keywords

Post-Silicon, Validation, Verification, Testing, Systems, Hardware, Firmware, Programming, Automation, Digital, Analog, Mixed-Signal, Power-Management, PMIC, Microcontroller, Assembly, Embedded, Debug, Tools.

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