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Emulation Engineer

Mountain View (HQ) or Remote💼 Full-time💰 $160,000–$160,000🗓 2026-05-23 → 2026-09-25

Core

Building infrastructure, flows, and debug methodology for advanced connectivity SoCs to support high-performance GenAI silicon.

Role type

Senior/Staff Emulation Engineer

Builds

Reusable emulation flows, transactors, agents, and AI-driven tooling for SoC validation.

Domain

Semiconductor hardware design, System-on-Chip (SoC), High-speed connectivity (PCIe, Ethernet, HBM4)

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

SoC emulation, Verilog/SystemVerilog, Python, C/C++, Rust, waveform debugging, automation, RTL design, firmware bring-up

Preferred skills

UVM, cycle-accurate models, Bazel, AI/LLM tooling for engineering, chiplet/interconnect fabrics

Technologies

Cadence Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, SpeedBridge, VirtualBridge, SystemC, Tcl, Shell, Rust, C++, Verilog, SystemVerilog

Responsibilities

Define and execute emulation strategy and test plans; Bring up and debug large-scale models on commercial emulation platforms; Integrate external components and build custom transactors; Develop HW/SW co-emulation flows; Drive emulation speed-ups and resource utilization; Build automation for regression triage; Develop practical LLM-based tooling for log analysis and debug assistance.

Seniority

Senior/Staff, hands-on IC

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