Security System Test Engineer
Qualcomm· Semiconductors· Oct 1, 2026 · 27d ago
San Diego, California, United States of America
In office
Full-time
Mid
$130K–$175K est.
2+ years exp
Job description
Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering
General Summary:
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm ASIC Engineer, you will define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for a variety of high performance, high quality, low power world class products. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional groups to determine product execution path.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.
The Security System Test Engineer will work as part of Qualcomm’s Hardware Security Team on leading technologies in Qualcomm’s diverse portfolio: Artificial Intelligence, Laptops, IoT, Mobile, Automotive, Wearables, and XR/VR. Product Security Certifications are critical in building customer trust, demonstrating security capabilities, meeting regulations, and ensuring high security assurance. You will be joining a cross functional team of expert hardware and security engineers contributing to the development and certification of Qualcomm Product Portfolio.
You will focus on developing scalable methodologies, software vectors, test benches, test platform assembly, and automation tools for supporting: Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP), Common Criteria, Global Platform, and EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The candidate will be expected to work across multiple disciplines from system architects, hardware designers, production test engineers, security analyst, and certification engineers.
Required Skills
• Experience in Low Level software development in C, C++, and Assembly
• Excellent knowledge of ARM / RISCV processors
• Experience with SCM tools (GIT, Perforce)
• Experience with defect tracking tools (JIRA, CQ)
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work with cross functional teams
• Strong debug skills
Preferred Skills
• Experience developing software vectors
• Experienced with Operating Systems Principles
• Understanding multi-threaded and multi-core computing
• Working knowledge of software development process (Agile preferred)
• Knowledge of Security Protocols (Hashing, symmetric and asymmetric cryptography)
• Develop / Maintain / Port software vectors across a chipset families
• Debug of software vectors & system initialization using Lauterbach Trace32 / Practice Scripts
• Experience with developing test methodologies to support:
• Validating Security Architecture & Engineering Designs meet Security Certification Requirements.
• Leveraging Lab Instrument Automation to collect large Characterization Data Sets across environmental parameters ranges.
• Experience with developing test benches that support a diverse range of HW/SW Qualcomm platforms.
• Developing test vectors to triage and isolate HW/SW faults
• Experience with Qualcomm Automotive | Mobile | Compute | IOT or XR/VR Plarms.
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :
$121,800.00 - $182,600.00
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 .
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