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General Summary:
PMIC Systems & Validation Engineer
Team & Product Overview:
Qualcomm's Power Management Systems, Validation & Integration team (PMIC-SVI) leads the industry in system architecture and post-silicon validation of high-performance feature-rich Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMICs), that are embedded in our Chipsets - for smartphones, tablets, laptops, wearables and a variety of cutting-edge consumer electronics. This team gets to work on state-of-art technology to enable products with world’s leading brands.
A typical Qualcomm PMIC is a highly advanced IC that has a multitude of IPs viz. switching DC-DC converters, linear regulators, clock oscillators, battery charger, fuel gauge, LED drivers, and ADCs. Additionally, there is an embedded mini-processor running critical firmware (FW) to support power sequencing, interrupt servicing, crash handling and various device reset scenarios. Often, Qualcomm chipset solutions contain multiple PMICs working together in sync – which constitute a ‘PMIC-System’.
Job Responsibilities
This job involves a mix of Architecture, HW Systems, Embedded Firmware development, Functional Validation, Chipset integration & customer issue debug support. We are looking for Systems & Validation engineers with preferably 1 -4 years of experience in analog/power electronics. Depending on your experience level and area of technical expertise you will own and participate in systems definition, HW/SW debugging and validation of PMIC solutions by partnering with various engineering teams like Analog/Digital Design, Software and Customer Engineering in a fast-paced environment.
Systems involves coming up with a Top-Level specification (involving HW/FW/SW level partitioning of feature-design, HW Register interfaces, memory sizing, protocol selection, multi-PMIC connectivity grid, debug framework support, etc) to satisfy all chipset level requirements.
Embedded Firmware development involves coding for a custom processor in Python/Assembly environment to support power sequencing, interrupt servicing, crash handling and various device reset scenarios.
Validation involves coming up with a comprehensive functional validation plan (that covers both manual and scripted automated test cases), executing them within stipulated time-period, analyzing results at HW-level (via signal measurements), debugging issues & creating reports.
Engineers will be responsible to perform risk assessment of development and validation plans; and interact with PMIC Product Management, Design & Characterization teams; other SoC HW/SW Architecture, Development & Validation teams; and finally Customer-Engagement teams across worldwide sites.
Education Requirements
A Bachelor's degree in Electronics related Engineering is a must.
Master’s degree is preferred esp. with specialization in VLSI / Microelectronics, Embedded Systems, Power Management, etc.
Minimum Qualifications
We are looking for applicants with 1-4 years of job-experience – relevant to various HW/FW/SW aspects of any electronic product development. They should be well-versed with knowledge of entire ASIC Flow (from concept-stage to commercial-product support).
Preferred Qualifications
Applicants should be aware of fundamentals of PMIC, Power Management, Microcontroller architecture, basic-firmware & HW-SW interaction.
Applicants should also have strong hands-on lab-experience in Post-Si Validation. (HW-level Bench measurement and/or SW-level logs-based verification).
Preferred Skills:
Keywords
PMIC, Power Systems, System Architecture, switch mode power supply, SMPS, DC-DC, LDO, ADC, functional Validation, test automation, Voltage Regulators, Battery Chargers, Battery Management/Gauging
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.Applicants: If you need an accommodation, during the application/hiring process, you may request an accommodation by sending email to
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