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 drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

We are seeking engineers with experience in system and device level functional safety concepts and implementations. This position will be a hands-on role in analyzing Functional Safety concepts and requirements in existing and next generation ADAS/Autonomy systems offered by Qualcomm, while optimizing and exercising the full capability of the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform.

Responsibilities shall include the following:

Developing a system level safety concepts and requirements for ADAS and IVI use cases with customer implementations in mind and to integrate Qualcomm’s hardware in leading Automotive OEM and Tier 1 safety critical systems.

Work in collaboration with 3rd party, Customer, and Automotive Stack suppliers, Hardware component suppliers (PMIC, DRAM, Sensor, etc) to ensure all aligned customer system level requirements are met

Work with IP and SoC teams on the implementation of Technical Safety Concepts (TSCs) on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon automotive hardware. Work with various technology teams on architectural features that would enable targeted safety levels (ASIL B to ASIL D, depending upon the technology team and system level requirements) to meet customer targets

Conducting safety analyses, both quantitative and qualitative, fault campaigns on automotive hardware designs and identify areas of improvement. 

Responsibilities will include leading functional safety related activities for SoC development and ensure ISO 26262 compliance with respect to SoC architecture, development processes and work products.

Work closely with SoC Design and IP teams, Software team, Quality teams, the functional safety manager(s) as well as customers to ensure the functional safety process is executed and documented.

Working with vendors and partners to ensure functional safety requirements are fulfilled by the components that they provide

Work with internal and external functional safety assessors to ensure compliance with ISO 26262

Create functional safety collateral for customers viz. Functional Safety Manual, Safety Analyses Reports, dedicated application notes etc. Supporting customer assessments of our safety features and recommending HW and SW based solutions that meet overall system targets.

Working closely with customers and supporting them on various functional safety related aspects

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

8+ years Systems Engineering, SoC Integration, Verification, or related work experience.

Collaborative work experience with good communication skills involving customers, vendors, and internal development teams.

Structured problem-solving capability and ability to work with teams on root cause analyses.

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years Automotive experience and familiarity with Safety work products, experience with Functional Safety Hardware and/or Software development in semiconductor industry meeting IS0 26262/ IEC 61508 standards.

Prior automotive experience in ADAS and self-driving systems preferred.

System level Functional safety analysis experience on Hardware/Software components integration preferred

SoC/IP integration or verification with good understanding of SoC Architecture and IP design experience preferred

Requirements Management Tools and establishing traceability for functional safety requirements e.g. DOORS, etc.

Familiarity with Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is required experience using tools to perform FMEA, FTA preferred

Familiarity with hardware failure rate calculation (FMEDA) experience using Siemens 29500 and/or IEC 62380 preferred

Relevant Safety Certification is desired e.g. CFSE, CFSP

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