Near-Memory Compute System Validation Engineer

General Summary: About the Team Qualcomms System Validation and 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 and 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. OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. []{style="color: #000000; background-color: #f5f6f7; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Sou "}