- BS (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields with 8+ years of experience, or MS with 6+ years of proven experience in FPGA prototyping and/or hardware emulation.
- Strong understanding of FPGA prototyping and hardware emulation architectures, devices, flows, and tools.
- Hands-on experience with Synopsys ProtoCompiler or Synplify Premier, Xilinx Vivado, and familiarity with emulation platforms such as Synopsys ZeBu or Siemens Veloce.
- Exposure to ASIC design and verification tools (VCS or equivalent, Verdi, GDB).
- Knowledge of Verilog, SystemVerilog, and digital design concepts.
- Understanding of industry-standard protocols such as PCIe, CXL, NVLINK, USB, CHI, and CPU-GPU coherency.
- Hands-on experience with lab FPGA debug methodologies, tools (Identify or ChipScope), and lab debug equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers).
- Strong expertise in developing and optimizing emulation-friendly C/C++ testbenches and transactors that can operate efficiently at emulation speeds is a critical skill for this role and experience minimizing host-emulator communication bottlenecks, improving transaction throughput, and architecting scalable software-driven validation environments for high-performance SoCs and multi-ASIC systems.
- Ability to develop efficient DPI/PLI/SystemC-based interfaces and software infrastructures that enable high-speed validation, debug, and bring-up on hardware emulation platforms.
Ways to stand out from the crowd
- Scripting knowledge (Perl/shell/Tcl/Python) is desired.
- Good documentation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience with memory bring-up of LPDDR5/6, DDR5/6, CXL/PCIe, and/or high-speed interfaces such as USB4/3 is desirable.
- Prior experience with hardware emulation or prototyping platforms (Synopsys HAPS, ZeBu, Siemens Veloce) of a high-performance processor or SOC is highly desirable.
- Understanding of performance-sensitive validation methodologies for large-scale emulation environments, including efficient logging, synchronization, memory handling, and protocol traffic generation and experience enabling pre-silicon software validation, firmware bring-up, or system-level debug on emulation platforms is a plus!
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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are: 168,000 USD – 264,500 USD for Level 4; and 196,000 USD – 310,500 USD for Level 5.
You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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