Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm’s Connectivity functional verification team is looking for an enthusiastic new team member to participate in the pre-silicon verification of high performance RFICs for WIFI radio and personal navigation applications.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

OR

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities include:

• Based on analog circuit design, developing, and debugging behavioral models for event driven simulation, as well as models for mixed signal simulation.

• Developing and maintaining self-checking test benches.

• Define and develop test coverages and test sequences for design verification

• Maintaining scripts that streamline release of netlists and generation of programming instructions.

• Diagnosing failed tests.

• Verifying chip level functionality, tracking result, and logging bugs.

• Participate in methodology development.

Skills/Experience:

• At least 3 years of experience in digital design or functional verification, preferably of RF or mixed signal chips.

• Solid understanding of RF-analog circuit design

• Solid understanding of digital logic design

• Solid knowledge of behavioral modeling

• Working knowledge of Cadence’s AMS designers/XCelium (setup, netlisting, error messages…).

• Proficient at System Verilog.

• Proficient at scripting, preferably with Python, Perl, C-Shell and Cadence SKILL

• Familiarity with serial bus interfaces, register controllers, and state machines.

• Familiarity with RF transceiver architectures, phase lock loops (PLLs), analog-to-digital converters, and digital-to-analog converters (ADCs and DACs) would be extremely helpful.

• Familiarity with verification methodologies like UVM are a plus.

Education:

• A master’s degree, or higher, in EE and/or computer science, or equivalent experience is preferred

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