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Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm

Location

Bengaluru

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Work experience

Senior Staff Engineer/Manager at Qualcomm, Dec 2025 - Present · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leadership & Technical Ownership 1) Own the technical charter for pre-silicon ISP modelling, covering camera pipeline behavior, register-accurate modelling, interrupt flows, firmware interfaces, and validation support for DV, FW, and SW teams across business units. 2) Manage and technically mentor a 24-member team across Bangalore and Noida Design Centers, aligning priorities, execution plans, and delivery commitments. Pre-Silicon End to End Software Verification using Virtual Platforms 1) Technical Lead for Camera and Computer Vision subsystem integration into the SoC Virtual Platform, enabling pre-silicon validation for software teams and OEMs.

Staff Engineer at Qualcomm, May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Automotive Camera and Computer Vision ISP Pipeline Virtual Platform Modelling and Simulation. 1) Technical lead for Camera and Computer Vision ISP Virtual Platform Development. Concept to Commercialisation. 2) Integration into QEMU based Automotive SoC. 3) Bringup of Target RTOS and Software on VP 4) Enabling E2E ADAS specific Camera/CV use case Virtual Platform simulation on a Cloud based CI/CD

Senior Software Engineer at Arm, Mar 2020 - Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, 1) Modelling of ARMv8/9 CPU Architecture Features. 2) Worked on Modelling VMSA, Debug and Trace related features. 3) Support Platform Releases and Updates. 4) Support Verification of CPU Features with Validation team.

Architect - Product Development at HARMAN International, Jan 2017 - Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1) Virtual Platform Hardware Modelling using SystemC 2) Consultancy in End to End Verification Projects for the client 3) Expert Understanding of Firmware and Software Components and Inter-Working 4) Expert Debugging Skills

Technical Lead - Product Development at HARMAN International, Jan 2015 - Mar 2020 · 5 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, End to End Verification Specialist using Virtual Platforms. Verification tool development for using Virtual Platforms

Senior Engineer - Virtual Platform Development at Symphony Teleca, Jan 2014 - Feb 2020 · 6 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore, Client : Intel Mobile Communication Project : Virtual Prototype Simulation and Verification of Modem SoC Tasks: GCF Testcase verification of GSM/UMTS on a virtual platform

Graduate Thesis -Systems Engineering at Intel Corporation, Apr 2013 - Sep 2013 · 6 mos, Ruhr Region, Title: Simulation of GSM/UMTS Inter Radio access technology (Inter-RAT) Scenarios on Virtual Platform Tasks: 1) The task is related to Pre-Silicon verification of IRAT Scenarios between 2G/3G. 2) Need to develop the system in C/C++ and System C and verify the complete protocols related to 2G/3G Publications: “A New Simulation Approach for Pre-Silicon HW/SW Integration and System Verification/Validation”, DTTC 2013, Intel, USA

Graduate Student Intern - Systems Engineer at Intel Corporation, Oct 2012 - Mar 2013 · 6 mos, Duisburg Area, Germany, GSM/UMTS Virtual Prototype Modelling and Simulation Tasks: Investigation of Intel Modem SoC from the implementation and design point of view and make necessary enhancements to the system for the 2G/3G GCF Testcase bring-UP on Synopsys CoMET Systems Engineering Environment Work done using System C and C/C++.

Education

Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Bachelor, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology