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PMIC System HW-Validation Engineer

The document describes a job opening for a PMIC System Hardware Validation Engineer. The role involves validating power management integrated circuits (PMICs) that control power sequencing, fault handling, and other functions. Responsibilities include developing validation test plans, executing tests from the IC level up to full chipset/system level, identifying new test cases, and automating test execution and results. The ideal candidate has 1-3 years of experience in module or product validation, skills in lab instruments, programming, and understanding of digital circuits, microcontrollers and power management components.

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PMIC System HW-Validation Engineer

The document describes a job opening for a PMIC System Hardware Validation Engineer. The role involves validating power management integrated circuits (PMICs) that control power sequencing, fault handling, and other functions. Responsibilities include developing validation test plans, executing tests from the IC level up to full chipset/system level, identifying new test cases, and automating test execution and results. The ideal candidate has 1-3 years of experience in module or product validation, skills in lab instruments, programming, and understanding of digital circuits, microcontrollers and power management components.

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Exclusive JD for PMIC SVI Team Hire into PON/Top-Level/Firmware Module

Dated:05thDec 2021

PMIC System HW-Validation Engineer


Team& Product Overview
Qualcomm's Power Management Systems, Validation& Integrationteam (PMIC-SVI) leads the
industry in the 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, 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 whole range of analog/digital
hardware (HW) blocks as organs serving dedicated functions in system steady-state, along with
a brain consisting ofan embedded custommini-processorrunning critical firmware (FW).
Thisbraincontrols the power sequencing, interrupt servicing, crash handling and various device
reset scenarios. Additionally, it is responsible for maintaining various stability & performance
related configurations that are part of SoC software driver initializations. Furthermore, it
provides an intelligent-framework for sequencing of time-critical-operations, which otherwise
can't be guaranteed by any OS / higher-level software. Often, Qualcomm chipset solutions
contain multiple PMICs working together in sync – which together constitute a ‘PMIC-System’.

Job Responsibilities
This job/role is to perform System-level Validation (VI)ona limited quantity of Post-Silicon (Post-
Si)HW testbenches, to ensure high quality of PMIC-System Hardware (HW) & Firmware (FW)
design-deliverables – over a highly-complex & continuously-evolving product landscape.

As an applicant for this role, you will have to come up with a comprehensive VI-plan covering
various user scenarios, identify individual granular test-cases &prepareto execute all steps
withinavailable test framework - based on the requirements of each PMIC-System in aChipset-
solution. These test-cases, as appropriate will have to be run (manual & automated), starting
from PMIC stand-alone IC-level (on daughter-card)and expanding progressively to bigger
Chipset/System-level (test-phone-device) testing, including multi-event concurrencies. One of
your important contributions will be to envision new test-cases and enhance validation-
coverage via automating test-execution& results-validation. Additionally, you will act as Point-
of-Contact from the PMIC-SVI team to PMIC design& characterization teams as well as various
other SoCHW/SW validation teams, Chipset-Power Measurement, CoreBSP-SWand Customer-
Engineering teams.You will need to take ownership of activities like aligning & updating test-
procedures in accordance with ever-changing PMIC-architecture &system-state flows; as well as
recreating issues reported by other teams / customers, capturing signals/logs for the purpose of
debugging, validating workarounds/fixes, andassessing the confidence vs riskof your validation-
effortbefore the PMIC-System solutionis ready for commercial mass-production.
Education Requirements
A Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering is a must. Master’s degreeis preferred.

Minimum Qualifications
We are looking for applicants with 1-3 years of relevant job-experience – to work with other
teams on Module-level (IP in Chip) to end-Productvalidation, issues recreation & log collection.

Applicants must have industrial exposure of product-development via Systems Validation role in
VLSI/Embedded-Systems domain. 

Preferred Qualifications
Applicants should also have exposure to basic-firmware & HW-SW interaction. They should also
have strong hands-on lab-experience in Post-Si Validation of Mixed-signal (Analog/Digital) IP.

Candidates experienced in validating systems that are a combination of HW & FW


(microcontroller based) would be highly preferred.

Skill sets preferred/required (of descending order of importance):


1. Hands-on ability & comfort in using various lab instruments like oscilloscopes, power
supplies, JTAG debuggers etc.
2. Good programming skills in at least one of the following: C#, F#, Python, Perl, LabVIEW
or any other scripting language (in VLSI/Embedded Domain)
3. Reasonable understanding of digital and analog circuit design concepts – esp.
microcontrollers, DC-DC voltage-regulators, communication-protocols (e.g., I 2C, SPMI)
4. Familiarity with HW schematics and ability to trace inter connections on a PCB.
5. Good analytical &communication (verbal/written) skills.
6. Ability to seek information pro-actively, understand priorities and juggle multiple tasks in
a highly paced environment.
7. Experience in automating test-cases via SW-control for HW-systems
8. Experience in coming up with top-level test-plan and breaking it down to individual test
cases.
9. Prior experience in leading & executing white-box validation efforts of a HW-module or
sub-module, is a big plus.
10. ExposuretoAssembly-programming (for microcontroller) is good-to-have.
11. Exposure to tools like JIRA and GIT are a plus.

Keywords
Post-Silicon, Validation, Verification, Testing, Systems, Hardware, Firmware, Programming,
Automation, Digital, Analog, Mixed-Signal, Power-Management, PMIC, Microcontroller,
Assembly, Embedded, Debug, Tools.

P.T.O
Questionnaire
1. Are you willing to work full-time in Bangalore (relocate, if currently outside)?
2. How many years of work-experience do you have in Post-Silicon HW-Validation?
3. Rate yourself (0-5) in below skills, with 0 = N/A, 1 = Least, 5 = Most
a. Lab-Instruments (Oscope, PowerSupply) Handling (0-5):
b. VLSI/Embedded Programming-skills (0-5):
c. Digital circuits (Flops, Memories, uC) Understanding (0-5):
d. Power-Management (DC-DC, VREG) Understanding (0-5):
e. Familiarity with HW-Schematics / PCB usage (0-5):
f. SW-Automation for HW-testing (0-5):

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