Wireless PHY Systems Engineer — Pre-Silicon Emulation
Core
Pre-silicon emulation engineer for wireless SoCs, responsible for bringing up emulation builds and owning the infrastructure to verify RF/PHY/MAC designs before tape-out.
Role type
Senior IC wireless PHY systems engineer (pre-silicon emulation)
Builds
Pre-silicon emulation environment for wireless SoCs (Bluetooth, UWB)
Domain
Wireless communications, SoC design, RF/PHY/MAC
Required skills
Digital Signal Processing (DSP), wireless communications, PHY/MAC layer concepts, system modeling, simulation, test, MATLAB, C/C++, analog/RF impairments, wireless standards (Bluetooth, UWB), large-scale data analysis
Preferred skills
Wireless chip/modem development, cross-layer dependencies, Bluetooth/UWB systems design, SoC architecture, RTL (Verilog/VHDL), register map definition, fixed-point design, High-Level Synthesis (HLS), pre-silicon emulation (Palladium), FPGA prototyping, validation frameworks, Python, CI/CD pipelines
Technologies
Palladium, MATLAB, C/C++, Python, Verilog, VHDL, Bluetooth, UWB
Responsibilities
Perform early smoke and sanity testing on released emulation builds, build and own the emulation framework (register maps, boot sequences, clock/reset setup), abstract platform complexity into reusable tooling, sustain emulation infrastructure across silicon generations, support pre-silicon emulation test development and debug, bring up and characterize Bluetooth/UWB silicon in the lab
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
