ASIC Engineer, Emulation

Engineers with experience in HW emulation and prototyping required to build ASIC/System on Chip (SoC) and IP for data center applications.

ASIC Engineer, Emulation Responsibilities:

• Deliver high-quality emulation and prototyping models on industry-standard emulation and prototyping platforms
• Design, build, and execute comprehensive emulation test plans to ensure model accuracy and support pre-silicon validation efforts
• Lead the development and adoption of best-in-class emulation methodologies to accelerate hardware verification and software development
• Collaborate with Design, DV, validation, and software teams to develop tools, flows, and mechanisms that demonstrate key performance indicators such as functionality, performance, and power efficiency
• Enhance and mature standard interfaces including PCIe, DDRx, USB, and other interfaces on emulation components such as speed bridges, transactors, and virtual components
• Continuously improve the efficiency and effectiveness of emulation components and workflows for testing, debugging, analysis, and automation
• Partner with vendors to troubleshoot issues, deploy new emulation capabilities, and drive ongoing improvements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ Years of experience with EDA tools and scripting languages used to build tools and flows for complex emulation environments
• Experience with current emulation technologies and methods, simulation acceleration, in-circuit emulation, speed bridges, virtual prototyping, and hybrid methods

• Track record of successful ASIC/SoC where emulation is a critical workflow
• Experienced in compilation and build flows and creating build flows from scratch with necessary design modifications for emulation
• Experience in creating emulation systems for Multi-chip/SoC/IP designs and understanding of trade-offs between emulation resource consumptions, performance and ease of debug
• Experience managing multiple programs and enabling verification to achieve coverage closure and SW to achieve left shift of software development
• Experience with SystemVerilog and C++ to model RTL components and transactors
• Experience with post-silicon bring up, debug, and reproducing issues on emulators
• Experience with cadence (palladium/protium) and Synopsys (zebu) tools
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl and TCL