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CPU Verification Engineer, Director

Santa Clara, CA$252,800 – $379,200Posted 5 days ago

Immigration summary

Visa sponsorship

LikelyMedium confidence

This employer has recently sponsored work like this.

1,599 recent H-1B filings

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Green card sponsorship

Strong historyHigh confidence

This employer has recently sponsored green cards at scale.

89 recent certified PERM filings · 33 similar-role filings

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Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU 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 CPU Engineer, you will lead innovative Central Processing Unit (CPU) design efforts that have a critical impact on industries across the world. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, verify, and implement multi-core CPU operations for all Qualcomm Business Units.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

•    Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

  • 16+ years of work experience with high-performance microprocessor design.
  • 16+ years of work experience with high level programming (e.g., C, C++), scripting language programming (e.g., Perl, Python, etc.).
  • 16+ years of work experience with simulators and/or waveform debugging tools (e.g., Verilog, VHDL, etc.).

•    16+ years of work experience with industry standard tools for synthesis place and/or route and design verification.

•    16+ years of work experience with simulation, emulation, formal verification, or silicon validation.

•    16+ years of experience in creating functional models, checkers, test plans, and/or test generation.

•    4+ years in a technical leadership role.

•    3+ years experience working in a large matrixed organization.

•    2+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Sr. Director level and above).

•    2+ years working with operating budgets and/or project financials.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

•    Leverages expert knowledge of computer architecture, micro-architecture, logic design, circuits, and/or physical design to direct and drive the development and verification of high performance and low power CPU designs.

•    Directs and oversees the identification and solutions of highly complex problems to ensure design completeness, functionality, power, and performance.

•    Collaborates with critical stakeholders to define requirements, specifications, and trade-offs (e.g., performance, power, cost, functionalities, etc.) in order to accomplish product goals.

•    Directs and communicates guidelines and expectations for the evaluation if the design process from conceptualization to productization (i.e., architecture definition, feasibility, pre-silicon design and verification, and post-silicon validation) that meet customer and industry standards.

•    Communicates guidelines across teams for writing detailed technical documentation (e.g., feature descriptions, architectural descriptions, verification test plans, and implementation details, etc.) for CPU designs.

Level of Responsibility:

  • Provides supervision to other supervisors/managers who are direct reports.
  • Decision-making is critical in nature and highly impacts program, product, or project success.
  • Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey highly complex and/or detailed information. May require strong negotiation and influence with large groups or high-level constituents.
  • Works within the prescribed budgetary objectives of the department.

•    Has a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions.

•    Tasks often require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; extensive planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.

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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Pay range

and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$252,800.00 - $379,200.00

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. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

Sponsorship evidence

Why Openbound reached the conclusions above.

Visa sponsorship evidence

Current posting

Silent on sponsorship

Other openings

20 of 1738 recent openings at this employer state a sponsorship restriction.

Employer H-1B history

1,599
recent certified H-1B filings
1,049
new-hire petitions
0
filings for similar roles
987
so far in FY2026

Filed titles like this role: software engineer · cellular system test engineer · systems test engineer · software applications engineer

More evidence details
  • 654 certified H-1B filings for closely related roles, though none for this exact title
  • 1,599 recent certified H-1B filings across the employer
  • Still filing this year — 987 filings in FY2026
  • 1,049 USCIS H-1B new-employment approvals, counted separately from LCA filings
  • Strong filing activity in CA
  • 2,949 further USCIS approvals for extensions or transfers
  • 20 other recent postings at this company state a sponsorship restriction
  • The supporting filings are for related work, not for this exact role
  • The posting says nothing about sponsorship either way

Strong filing activity in CA.

Green card sponsorship evidence

Employer PERM history

89
recent certified PERM filings
33
filings for similar roles
78
filings in this location
Certified PERM filings by fiscal year
2023245
202488
202527
202684YTD

Filing history reflects past employer behavior; it isn't a promise for this opening.

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