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As a #Systems SoC Test Engineer within the Systems Test Engineering team, you will develop, deploy, and automate cross-platform system validation solutions for Snapdragon SoCs. You will be responsible for ensuring stable, high-performance operation across critical subsystems including CPU, Graphics, Audio, Video, Storage, Display, Connectivity, Peripherals, Memory, Interconnects, and AI accelerators. Your daily work involves defining validation strategies, building scalable automation frameworks, and performing root-cause analysis to ensure quality across Android, Linux, Windows, and QNX environments. You will utilize C/C++, Python, Shell/Bash, and PowerShell to build tools for large-scale device farms. The role focuses on the technical challenge of validating hardware and software features from early silicon bring-up through production readiness, specifically addressing issues like power management, thermal excursions, and AI model integration using Qualcomm Hexagon and AI Direct SDKs.
Python
Go
C/C++
Embedded Systems
Linux
Android
Windows
Test Automation
Computer Vision
AI/ML
Graphics
Multimedia
Data Analytics
Root-cause Analysis
Firmware
Middleware
SoC
Embedded Systems
Python
C
C++
C#
.NET
Android
Linux
RTOS
JTAG
Lauterbach
Trace32
Perforce
Git
Oscilloscopes
Logic Analyzers
Power Supplies
Silicon Validation
System Level Test