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Senior Staff GPU Design Verification Engineer- Power

Nuvia

Nuvia

Design
San Diego, CA, USA
USD 195,200-292,800 / year + Equity
Posted on Jan 8, 2026
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Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > GPU ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) is the world leader in wireless ICs powering the majority of 5G devices and is the largest fabless semiconductor in the world. QCT's Digital ASIC design team delivers cutting edge hardware and software products that power the user’s experience and graphics content of the most advanced mobile devices on the market.

Responsibilities will include

  • Work with Architecture and Design team to understand the low power design features and create verification plan
  • Develop test plan documents for the design features and get them reviewed with design team
  • Develop verification components, testbench for low power verification and integrate third party VIPs/UVCs as required
  • Create constraint random verification environment using System Verilog, UVM
  • Follow company defined verification methodologies
  • Perform Power Aware Verification in a random verification environment with embedded firmware running on the design
  • Regress and close the required Low Power coverage metrics to ensure high quality design
  • Create portable test setup, verification components that can be reused across simulation, emulation platforms
  • Perform failure debug involving hardware software co-debug
  • Work with tool vendors and push the methodology to improve the verification flows.
  • System level RTL simulation & design verification.
  • Support SoC DV for their integration verification, chip bring up and post silicon debug.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Desirable Skills:

  • Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering, or closely related field
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in System Verilog, OVM/UVM based constrained random verification.
  • 5+ years in Design validation/post-silicon debug.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in developing verification components/UVCs, testbench for RTL verification
  • 5+ years of hands on testbench bringup, integrating third party VIPs, digital design, verification, debugging, and waveform debug
  • 3+ years of experience in UPF based Power Aware verification
  • 3+ years of experience in Functional coverage model development and/or code coverage closure

Preferred Skills:

  • MS degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent; 8 years of practical experience
  • Power Aware Emulation verification experience
  • Hardware/Software Co-verification or embedded firmware verification experience is highly desirable
  • Worked on Low Power coverage metrics collection and coverage closure
  • Knowledge of GPU/CPU/DDR/Bus preferred
  • Scripting skills using Python
  • Formal verification experience (AND/OR) Low Power Formal Verification experience

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$195,200.00 - $292,800.00

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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