Camera VI Engineer

Company:

QUALCOMM SEMICONDUCTORES Y SISTEMAS AVANZADOS DE BAJA CALIFORNIA

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm Multimedia Validation and Integration team is a part of the Visual-Technology team and is responsible for the overall quality of Multimedia-IP in Silicon. As a member of our MMVI team, the candidate will develop suite for verifying, validating, integrating, and debugging advanced multimedia intellectual property and related system functions in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments of Multimedia/Imaging-cores, will contribute to the bring-up, integration, debug, and quality assurance of next‑generation SoCs and system platforms used in mobile, compute, AI acceleration, high‑speed interfaces, connected‑edge products and complete System‑on‑Chip use cases.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and execute comprehensive validation plans for multimedia hardware and software features across multiple product platforms.
• Validate multimedia subsystems including camera, imaging pipelines, computer vision, and AI‑enabled multimedia functions.
• Design, develop, and automate test frameworks, validation tools, diagnostics, and regression suites.
• Investigate functional, performance, power, reliability, and quality issues; identify root causes and drive resolution across cross‑functional teams.
• Analyze system logs, protocol captures, performance metrics, and silicon debug data.
• Collaborate with design verification, firmware, software, system architecture, and product teams during all phases of the product lifecycle.
• Support silicon bring‑up, platform integration, feature characterization, and customer issue investigations.
• Participate in technical reviews, design discussions, debug triage meetings, and product readiness assessments.
• Debug hardware, firmware, driver, and system‑level issues using JTAG debuggers, trace tools, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other laboratory equipment.

Minimum Skills

• 2+ years of industry experience in validation, verification, system integration, multimedia software, firmware, or related engineering fields.
• Knowledge with pre‑silicon or post‑silicon validation, hardware bring‑up, system integration, or low‑level hardware/software debug.
• Knowledge in developing and executing validation or verification test plans.
• Programming and scripting skills in Python, C/C++, Bash/Shell
• Familiarity with Multimedia Engines/Technology (Camera & Image Processing, Video Compression, Compute Vision)
• Experience with automated testing and regression environments.
• Familiarity with High‑Speed interfaces & Signal Integrity
• Hands‑on experience using signal‑generators, oscilloscopes, high‑bandwidth probes, logic analyzers.
• Exposure to AI/ML technologies, AI agents and agentic workflows that assist with engineering tasks (Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar productivity assistants) and the ability to use them responsibly to improve engineering efficiency
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of defined technical assignments, and collaborate effectively across geographically distributed engineering teams

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with in‑circuit emulation tools, ARM‑based System‑On‑Chip, validation experience related to board bring‑up and low‑level software and hardware issues debug, JTAG, compilers, linkers, scatter‑files
• Familiarity with embedded systems, low‑level software/device drivers, Version‑Control Tools, Linux, RTOS, GIT or similar source‑control systems
• Understanding of Camera ISP pipelines, CAM‑sensor integration, computer vision, or AI‑assisted multimedia technologies
• Understanding of performance validation, power characterization, stress testing, latency, throughput, memory bandwidth, thermal constraints.
• Familiarity with FPGA prototyping, hardware emulation, simulation acceleration, Verilog, SystemVerilog, hardware design concepts, RTL simulation, schematics, or digital IC architecture.
• Familiarity with DFT/DFD, ATE/ATPG, SLT, high‑volume validation, RMA debug, or production‑screening concepts.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

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