GPU Design Verification Engineer

Company: Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area

Engineering Group > GPU ASICS Engineering

General Summary

Architects, designs, implements, verifies, and optimizes performance and power of GPU cores. Responsible for verification of Graphics IP, and performing pre- and post-silicon verification to verify correctness and ensure performance and power goals are met.

Responsibilities

• Owning and executing key independent tasks towards program requirements
• Using verbal and written communication skills to convey basic, routine factual information about day‑to‑day activities to others who are fully knowledgeable in the subject area.
• Working within prescribed timeline requirements and resource constraints
• Applying independent creative thought to troubleshoot technical problems or deal with novel circumstances.
• Research through available resources and engagement with various inter‑disciplinary teams
• Using deductive problem solving to solve moderately complex problems; most problems have defined processes of diagnosis/detection; some limited data analysis may be required.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Applies graphics knowledge and experience to architect, design, implement, and verify the structure and performance of GPU hardware, drivers, features, applications, and tools.
• Creates and maintains verification test benches and environments in System Verilog/UVM.
• Creates and leverages advanced testing frameworks to generate and recreate real‑world system integration conditions.
• Collaborates with Architecture, Software, Firmware, Design, Modeling, Emulation and Post‑silicon validation teams to define and develop test methodology and content.
• Participates in GPU architecture, micro‑architecture reviews.
• Collects, organizes and executes various forms of system level test content including directed testcases, gaming benchmarks, standards compliance test suites, and system level scenarios.
• Builds automation for continuous integration and testing based on latest GPU IP.
• Helps collect and analyze test results using straightforward statistics and data predictions to track benchmarks and identify issues.
• Works with team members to understand and align on narrow scope of feature development and meet targets.
• Writes technical documentation and feature descriptions for straightforward projects under the direction of a supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field plus 4+ years of related work experience.
• Master's degree in same fields plus 3+ years of related work experience.
• PhD in same fields plus 2+ years of related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• Verification skills: Test planning, Scripting, Simulation, problem solving, and debugging.
• System Verilog, UVM, Verilog or VHDL, C/C++ skills required.
• Constrained random, functional coverage development, design debug experience required.
• Exposure to Emulation/Prototyping Platforms (Veloce, Palladium, Zebu, FPGA).
• Master's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 2+ years relevant GPU experience (either external or internal).

Preferred Skills

• Experience in GPU based verification.
• Experience in system or sub‑system level verification.
• Concurrency, preemption, stress testing frameworks.
• Testbench architecture and implementation.
• GFX API exposure: Vulkan/DX11/DX12 exposure.
• Scripting and automation skills (Python, Make, Airflow, etc.).
• Embedded firmware development and debugging.
• Benchmarking and performance analysis.
• Windows and/or Linux OS kernel architecture.
• C/C++, GNU Toolchain, Visual Studio.
• Formal verification – FPV and DPV experience is a plus.
• Experience with emulation/prototyping/hybrid build and execution flows (Veloce, Palladium, Zebu, Protium, HAPS, QEMU).
• Development of synthesizable transactors, monitors, scoreboards for emulation platforms.
• Embedded firmware and/or kernel level development and debugging skills (C/C++, Makefile, gdb, uboot, uefi, kernel‑mode drivers).

Role Availability

This role is available at different levels.

Compensation and Benefits

Pay range: $132,600.00 – $182,600.00 per year. The salary is one component of total compensation; additional annual discretionary bonus program and RSU grants may be offered. Employees are eligible for a competitive benefits package supporting work, home, and personal life.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Additional Information

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