Job Description

Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area:

Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > Support Engineering

General Summary:

As a Support Engineer at Qualcomm, you will significantly contribute to our product improvement and work with other Engineers to sustain aspects of our product development life cycle. Support Engineers will also play a critical role in resolving technical system issues that promote product reliability. You will have endless opportunities to learn and grow in the Engineering development space.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree.
OR
Associate's degree and 1+ year of technical or related work experience.
OR
High School Diploma or equivalent and 2+ years of technical or related work experience.

The High-Speed Interfaces Silicon Validation team is looking for a dynamic and motivated individual to join our team to support the silicon lab activities for our ultra high-speed (100Gbps+) network communication devices. Be part of a fast moving, enthusiastic, and dynamic team made up of validation, applications, systems, and mixed signal design engineers. In the lab you will contribute and manage the test HW setups, further growing your hardware and software skills as you support the testing of these devices. This is an opportunity to work with the latest and greatest lab equipment and software tools in addition to working on leading edge technology. New Position.

In this role you will be working in a team environment supporting the validation and characterization for the next generation ultra-high-speed interfaces, referred to Serial-Deserializer (SerDes) transceivers or optical transceivers. You will be responsible for test support of our SerDes devices including, maintaining all hardware setups, preventative maintenance and calibration certification of equipment, lab logistics and safety, and support the execution of Python automation scripts to characterize the devices, all under the support of a great team of experienced engineers.

What You Will Do

• You will be involved with the characterization activities of the SerDes device including hardware bench setups, hardware measurements and debug, and where necessary, support and maintain Python scripts and routines for device automation and lab instrumentation control, including but not limited to, oscilloscopes, bit error rate testers (BERT), signal analyzers, vector network analyzers (VNA), Variable Optical Attenuators (VOA), Optical Spectrum Analyzers (OSA), and power meters
• Work with team and subcontractors to identify and procure lab equipment, consumables, and materials
• Managing lab logistics and preventative maintenance activities
• Maintain equipment calibration certification
• Owner of lab safety
• Working with building operations team on all facility related matters
• Create and maintain documentation, such as lab user guides / procedures and equipment records
• Provide status report on lab activities

What You Will Need

• Minimum of Diploma in Electrical Technician or Technology
• Understanding of basic electrical circuits
• Ability to debug, repair, solder, and manual assembly of PCB
• Experience using equipment such as oscilloscopes, BERTs, signal analyzers, VNAs, and power supplies, VOA, OSA, power meters
• Ability to manage and organize the lab, including tracking of all lab equipment

It Would Be Amazing If You Had

• Programming experience with Python for the purpose of IC testing and automation of this testing
• Knowledge of signal integrity and power integrity concepts
• Semiconductor knowledge, particularly SerDes devices

About You

• Excellent communication skills
• Able to listen to and appreciate ideas and opinions that differ from yours
• Extremely detail oriented
• High organizational skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Drives for consistency
• Takes personal pride in high standard of outputs
• Self-motivated and self-managing

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$27.57 - $41.35

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.

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