SoC Emulation Lead for Pre-Silicon Validation

Evollabs; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Evollabs is seeking a senior position in Dubai to own the development and bring-up of hardware emulation environments for next-generation AI/HPC SoCs. You will enable full-system validation, accelerate hardware/software integration, and support early firmware and software development before silicon is available.

Collaborating with RTL, verification, firmware, and software teams, you will drive pre-silicon validation, optimize emulation performance, and address complex system-level issues across

Qualifications

• 7+ years in ASIC/SoC design, verification, or emulation.
• Hands-on hardware emulation experience.
• Ownership of subsystem or full-SoC emulation bring-up from RTL compilation to execution and debugging.
• Strong knowledge of Verilog/SystemVerilog, SoC architecture, and AMB protocols (AXI/APB).
• Experience with emulation-compatible test environments, BFMs, transactors, and system-level debugging.
• Good understanding of CPU subsystems, NoC/interconnect, DMA, memory systems, clocks, resets, and interrupts.
• Proficiency in C/C++, Python, Tcl/Bash, Linux, and automation workflows.
• Experience supporting firmware-driven verification and hardware/software integration.

Responsibilities

• Own SoC emulation: Build, integrate, and maintain subsystem and full-chip emulation environments using commercial hardware emulation platforms.
• RTL bring-up and optimization: Compile, partition, map, and optimize RTL designs for emulation, resolving compatibility, performance, and integration issues.
• Verification acceleration: Adapt UVM environments, develop BFMs and transactors, and enable hardware-accelerated verification.
• HW/SW co-verification: Enable processor boot, firmware execution, driver development, and software-driven system validation.
• System-level debugging: Investigate complex issues across CPU, NoC, DMA, memory, high-speed interfaces, and peripheral subsystems.
• Automation and infrastructure: Develop reliable emulation build flows, regressions, CI integration, and debugging automation.
• Integration and collaboration: Support third-party IP integration, maintain reproducible environments, and drive issues to resolution across engineering teams.

Skills

ASIC/SoC design

Emulation platforms

RTL bring-up

Verilog/SystemVerilog

C/C++ scripting

Tools

Cadence Palladium

Synopsys ZeBu

Siemens Veloce

Job description

Evollabs is seeking a senior position in Dubai to own the development and bring-up of hardware emulation environments for next-generation AI/HPC SoCs. You will enable full-system validation, accelerate hardware/software integration, and support early firmware and software development before silicon is available.

Collaborating with RTL, verification, firmware, and software teams, you will drive pre-silicon validation, optimize emulation performance, and address complex system-level issues across