Senior Emulation Engineer

Position: Senior Emulation Engineer
Experience: 5–10 Years
Location: Bangalore
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Emulation Engineer with solid 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.
• Robust RTL/SystemVerilog knowledge.
• Hands-on experience with Palladium, Veloce, or ZeBu.
• Strong scripting skills in Python/Tcl/Shell.
• Good C/C++ programming knowledge.
• Robust 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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