Job Description

Role Overview

The Platform Engineering organization is looking for a self-driven, hands-on engineer who can bridge the communication and skillset divide between firmware, silicon design, and hardware validation. Your primary responsibility will be supporting our advanced prototyping and emulation platforms, with a specific focus on end users.

The ideal candidate has a broad, systems-level knowledge base, with deep technical expertise in platform bring-up, hardware/software co-verification, and high-density FPGA deployments.

Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead Project Bring-Up Diagnostics: Partner with firmware and hardware teams during the critical early phases of project bring-up. Own the initial setup, setting configuration, and stabilization of emulation and prototyping platforms.
- Triage Debug: Act as the first line of defense for complex system-level failures during bring-up. Rapidly isolate root causes across the hardware, FPGA/emulator configuration, and early boot-code boundaries.
- Partner with Customers:



Work directly with product firmware engineers to break down execution barriers, unblock their development pipelines, and abstract away hardware complexities.
- Infrastructure Automation: Develop automation, monitoring scripts, and health-check reporting to maximize the reliability, utilization, and throughput of the emulation and prototyping farm.
- Knowledge Sharing: Document creative workarounds, capture debug methodologies, and build standardized playbooks for platform setup and troubleshooting.

Desired Skills Experience
- FPGA Prototyping Support: Proven experience supporting large-scale FPGA prototyping platforms (e.g., Synopsys HAPS, custom multi-FPGA boards). Understanding of FPGA synthesis, place-and-route constraints, and clocking strategies is highly valued.
- System-Level Debugging: Mastery of debugging tools and protocols (e.g., JTAG, protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, in-circuit emulators) to trace signals and state

📌 Staff ASIC Digital Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Western Digital
📍 Bengaluru