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Staff/ Sr. Staff Design Verification Engineer - QGOV

qualcomm
San Diego, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 18 May 2026
💰 $246,000/yr($147,600/yr$246,000/yr)

About the role


Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Design Verification

Role: 

  • Familiarity with RTL design in Verilog and System Verilog 
  • Develop verification methodology, ensuring scalable and portable environment across simulation and emulation.
  • Develop test plan to verify Hardware building blocks, Design macros and Standard interfaces (PCIE, DDR, USB, I2C, SPI, etc) .
  • Own end to end DV tasks from coding Test bench and test cases, write assertions, running simulations and achieving all coverage goals
  • Explore innovative DV methodologies (formal, simulation and emulation based) to continuously push the quality and efficiency of test benches
  • Develop verification methodology, ensuring scalable and portable environment across simulation and emulation.
  • Develop and maintain emulation environment to collect metrics related to emulation environment.

**Need to be in San Diego full time, 5 days a week

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
 

** Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to receive a U.S. Government security clearance **

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of work experience with RTL/FPGA design (Verilog), embedded system architecture
  • 5+ years of Design Verification, Emulation and Debug experience with simulation and emulation and prototyping flows 

Relevant experience of 5+ yrs in any of the mentioned domain - Design/Verification/ Implementation

Preferred Qualifications:

One or more of the following preferred:  

  • Knowledge of communication protocols such as AXI4-x, DDRx, PCIe, etc.
  • Strong System Verilog/UVM based verification skills & experience with assertion & coverage-based verification methodology
  • Good understanding of chip-level functional model building
  • Good understanding of OOP concepts Experience in HVL such as System Verilog, UVM/OVM & System C
  • Knowledge of Behavioral and Structural models and familiarity with simulation environments  
  • Experience customizing and debugging make-based build flows and working with Xilinx’s Vivado tools
  • Experience with cm tools such as Git and Gerrit.
  • Experience in formal / static verification methodologies will be a plus
  • Experience with emulation platforms – Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, FPGAs.
  • Experience with synthesizing and optimizing designs and verification components developed in synthesizable Verilog.
  • Experience with C/C++ DPI transactors and monitors.
  • Develop and maintain emulation environment to collect metrics related to emulation environment.
  • Develop environment to run verification test cases, OS boot, performance benchmarks and other vectors.
  • Design, develop, and maintain CAD infrastructure for silicon design teams enabling bring up, test and debug automations.
  • Execute verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring-up, regression enabling for all features under your care, debug of the test failures.
  • Experience with debugging tools such as JTAG and lab test equipment such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, etc.
  • Experience with GLS, and scripting languages such as Perl, Python is a plus
  • Linux OS proficiency

The ideal candidate would be a self-starter with strong initiative, discipline, motivation, and a focus on quality.

The candidate must be a team player and be flexible and open to a variety of task assignments within the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail 

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