Senior SoC Debug Engineer
Qualcomm Technologies
San Diego, CA · Posted October 13, 2026
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About the job
Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering General Summary: Qualcomm's Silicon Validation team is part of the central SoC digital hardware organization responsible for the overall quality of the SoC silicon. The validation team works closely with architects, designers, verification engineers, software engineers, and customers. We are currently seeking a candidate for the position of Senior SoC Debug Engineer. In this role, the candidate will support three critical roles: Key Responsibilities: In this role, the candidate will support three critical roles: * Bring up, debug, analyze failures at the embedded platform level in both pre-Si and post-Si phase * Support, develop, and implement solutions for faster debug at the platform level including isolating failing components of a system * Creating debug strategies and plans for partners to more rapidly triage failures to isolate specific components including PVT and marginality issues. * Gen AI automation and enablement for automating the Debug flow Minimum Requirements: * 5 to 8 years of experience with pre-si and post-silicon enabling, bring-up, analyze failures at the embedded platform level * RTL inspection and understanding of basic RTL * Gen AI knowledge and experience for automating the Debug flow * Support, develop, and implement solutions for faster debug at the platform level including isolating failing components of a system * Creating debug strategies and plans for partners to more rapidly triage failures to isolate specific components including PVT and marginality issues * Debugging low level software and hardware issues * Debug tools including JTAG * Using Lab Equipment (Logic Analyzer, Scope, Signal Generator, etc.) Educational Requirements: Bachelor's, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering Preferred: Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field. 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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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 : $121,800.00 - $182,600.00 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. 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