Senior Emulation Engineer

Position: Senior Emulation Engineer

Experience: 5–10 Years

Location: Bangalore

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Emulation Engineer with strong hands-on experience in pre-silicon validation and hardware/software co-debug. The engineer will own emulation environments and enable early software development and validation of complex SoCs.

Responsibilities

- Own end-to-end SoC emulation setup and bring-up.
- Port and debug RTL on commercial emulation platforms.
- Develop emulation-friendly test environments and infrastructure.
- Integrate RTL, firmware, drivers, and external models.
- Execute functional, performance, and software-driven validation.
- Debug failures using waveform, logs, trace, and transaction-level analysis.
- Work with design teams to resolve RTL and integration issues.
- Develop Python/C/C++ automation for test execution and result analysis.
- Create and maintain emulation regressions.
- Improve emulation performance, compile time, and capacity utilization.




- Support software teams with pre-silicon platforms for firmware and driver development.
- Mentor junior engineers and drive technical improvements.

Must Have
- 5+ years in ASIC/SoC verification, emulation, or FPGA prototyping.
- Strong RTL/SystemVerilog knowledge.
- Hands-on experience with Palladium, Veloce, or ZeBu.
- Strong scripting skills in Python/Tcl/Shell.
- Valuable C/C++ programming knowledge.
- Strong understanding of SoC architecture and hardware/software interaction.
- Excellent debugging and analytical skills.

Preferred
- UVM/SystemVerilog verification experience.
- Experience with CPU/AI/Networking/Storage SoCs.
- Knowledge of AXI, PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, USB, or other SoC interfaces.
- Experience with firmware, boot flow, drivers, or embedded software.
- FPGA prototyping experience.

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