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Design Verification Lead - Security Engineering

Nuvia

Nuvia

Design
Santa Clara, CA, USA
USD 222,600-333,800 / year + Equity
Posted on Oct 4, 2025
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Job Description

Job Posting Date

2025-10-03


Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Design Verification Lead – Security Engineering

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drive digital transformation—creating a smarter, more connected future for all.

We are seeking a seasoned Design Verification (DV) Lead to join our Security Engineering team, where you will provide strategic oversight and technical leadership for the verification of security-critical hardware subsystems. This is a high-impact role responsible for driving DV execution, ensuring quality and completeness, and mentoring a team of engineers to deliver world-class secure hardware solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage DV efforts for security-focused subsystems, ensuring alignment with architectural and system-level requirements.
  • Define and own verification strategy, methodology, and execution plans across multiple functional domains.
  • Oversee development of scalable and reusable verification environments, including stimulus generation, checkers, monitors, assertions, and coverage models.
  • Guide the creation and execution of detailed test and coverage plans based on architecture and micro-architecture specifications.
  • Drive design bring-up, regression setup, and debug efforts, ensuring robust verification coverage and timely closure of issues.
  • Provide technical mentorship and leadership to DV engineers, fostering best practices and continuous improvement.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with architects, designers, and software teams to ensure comprehensive validation of security features.
  • Report DV progress and quality metrics to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and accountability.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience in SOC-level or core-level verification, with a strong track record of leading DV teams and delivering high-quality silicon.
  • Deep understanding of APB/AXI/SPI protocols, handshake mechanisms, cross-clock domains, and clock gating.
  • Solid grasp of memory organization, fault-tolerant design, parity schemes, and error detection/correction mechanisms.
  • Experience with SystemVerilog/UVM, formal verification, assertions, and silicon bring-up.
  • Familiarity with ARM or RISC-V processor architectures, NoC designs, and micro-architectures.
  • Proficiency with industry-standard verification tools: simulators, coverage tools, waveform viewers, and mixed-signal verification.
  • Strong scripting skills in Python/Perl and working knowledge of UNIX/Linux environments.
  • Experience in writing test plans, portable testbenches, transactors, and assembly code.
  • Security experience (e.g., cryptographic algorithms, secure boot flows) is a plus, but not required.

This leadership role offers the opportunity to shape the verification strategy for some of the most secure and innovative hardware platforms in the industry. If you're a seasoned DV professional with a passion for quality and team leadership, we invite you to join us in building the future of secure computing.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 7+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ 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 disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

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EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$222,600.00 - $333,800.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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