Oryon CPU Post-Silicon Validation & Debug Engineer (Lead/Staff)

## Company: Qualcomm India Private Limited ## Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering General Summary: As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what’s possible to enable next-generation experiences and create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Post-Silicon Validation & Debug Engineer within the Oryon CPU Customer Engineering team, you will work on cutting-edge custom CPU technologies powering flagship mobile, compute, automotive, and data center platforms. You will drive post-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, and root-cause debug of complex CPU and SoC issues, collaborating closely with CPU Architecture, RTL, Design Verification, Physical Design, DFT, Firmware, and SoC teams to resolve challenging hardware and software problems and enable world-class product quality. Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. Experience: 7–10 years About the Role: We are looking for experienced Post-Silicon Validation & Debug Engineers to join the Oryon CPU Customer Engineering team, supporting Oryon Custom CPU-based products across flagship Mobile, Compute, Automotive, and Data Center platforms. This is a highly technical role at the intersection of CPU architecture, silicon, firmware, software, and customer engineering. You will investigate some of the most challenging CPU and SoC issues observed during silicon validation and in customer environments, driving them from initial failure analysis through root-cause identification and resolution. If you enjoy deep technical debugging, understanding complex CPU behavior, and solving problems that span hardware and software, this could be an exciting opportunity. What You'll Work On: * Own end-to-end debug and root-cause analysis of complex CPU and SoC issues, including crashes, hangs, watchdog resets, boot failures, performance degradation, power abnormalities, and silicon marginalities. * Analyze complex functional and microarchitectural failures using silicon traces, scan dumps, ETM/PTM, and other silicon debug infrastructure. * Debug issues involving CPU pipelines, caches, memory subsystems, coherency, exceptions, and multi-core interactions. * Investigate complex hardware, firmware, electrical, and system-level issues, including signal integrity, interface failures, and boot-related problems. * Collaborate closely with CPU Architecture, RTL, Design Verification, Physical Design, DFT, Firmware, and SoC teams to identify root causes and drive issues to closure. * Develop scripts, automation, and debug methodologies to improve validation efficiency and accelerate issue resolution. * Help enable exceptional silicon quality and reliability for next-generation Oryon CPU-based platforms. What We're Looking For: Engineers with 7–10 years of relevant experience and strong expertise in: ✔ CPU microarchitecture and ARM architecture fundamentals ✔ Post-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, failure analysis, and debug ✔ SoC architecture, interconnects, memory subsystems, and multi-core CPU systems ✔ CPU pipelines, caches, coherency, memory ordering, exception handling, and debug flows ✔ Silicon debug techniques including ETM/PTM, traces, scan dumps, and hardware debug infrastructure ✔ Programming/debug skills in C/C++, Assembly, and Python ✔ Debugging interactions across hardware, firmware, and software layers ✔ Strong analytical thinking with a structured approach to root-cause analysis Why This Role? You’ll work on challenging real-world problems involving cutting-edge Oryon CPU silicon, collaborating across architecture, design, validation, firmware, and SoC engineering teams to help deliver high-quality processors for next-generation products. 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