Near-Memory Compute System Validation Engineer in Markham

Company Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

About the Team Qualcomm’s System Validation & Emulation (SVE) team is part of the central SoC validation organization responsible for ensuring end-to-end silicon quality across pre- and post-silicon phases. This role focuses on content quality and system-level validation enablement, offering deep exposure to Qualcomm SoCs through bare-metal validation content, scalable automation frameworks, and complex system debugs. Engineers in this role work across HW and SW boundaries to develop, validate, and scale system-level test content, ensuring high-quality silicon validation across a wide range of SoC domains.

Excellent Opportunity to work on cutting-edge SoCs across multiple product segments, including:

• Premium mobile and flagship platforms
• Data center
• AI Accelerator platform

Roles And Responsibilities:

• Develop AI, inference, and data-intensive bare-metal workloads to stress memory and compute subsystems.
• Root-cause complex hardware and software issues spanning SoC architecture, firmware, drivers, interconnects, memory systems, clocks, power domains, and low-power features.
• Enable silicon bring-up, qualification, and productization through deep technical analysis and cross-functional collaboration.
• Partner closely with architecture, design, firmware, software, emulation, FPGA, and silicon teams to solve challenging system-level problems.

Required Qualifications:

• BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in memory validation, silicon validation, or platform bring-up.
• Strong debugging and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in C/C++, Python, scripting, and low-level software development.
• Solid understanding of SoC architecture, embedded systems, operating systems, memory hierarchy, caches, coherency & concurrency.
• Experience with silicon bring-up, validation, and root-cause analysis.
• Familiarity with JTAG, kernel debuggers, lab instrumentation, and validation tools.
• Experience working across the hardware/software boundary in highly complex systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in one or more of:
• Near-Memory Compute (NMC)
• Processing-in-Memory (PIM)
• High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
• LPDDR/DDR memory systems
• Memory controllers
• AI accelerators
• Knowledge on AI GEMM and GEMV operations, DMA operations, multi-threading
• AI/ML-assisted validation and debug methodologies
• Embedded firmware, device drivers, and bare-metal software
• Emulation, and post-silicon validation

Why Join Us?

Join a team driving the next generation of AI-centric memory and compute architectures, spanning High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM), Processing-in-Memory (PIM), Near-Memory Compute (NMC), 3D-stacked memory systems, and memory-compute convergence technologies. You will work on some of the industry's most advanced SoC technologies. Your work will directly influence silicon bring-up, product readiness, and the delivery of high-quality platforms powering future generations of Data-center and AI products.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ 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.