Senior Virtual Platform Engineer - HW/SW Co-Design

Synthara AG; Zürich; On-site; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Synthara AG is a semiconductor company pioneering ComputeRAM®. ComputeRAM transforms memory into a computational engine for AI, signal processing and data-heavy workloads.

Join Synthara's software team to own the virtual platforms for ComputeRAM® as reference systems for pre-silicon software prototyping and HW/SW co-verification. You sit between hardware and software to make both sides work together and expose issues early.

Qualifications

• Strong embedded systems background with C/C++, firmware, and drivers.
• Experience with simulators, FPGA prototyping, and system bring-up.
• Comfortable working across HW/SW boundaries.
• Debugs at system level, not component level.
• Bias for ownership and problem resolution.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain full-system simulation platforms (ComputeRAM, MCU cores, interconnect, DMA, peripherals) using SystemC, FPGA, VCS, Renode
• Integrate RTL models into simulators and develop low-level firmware for hardware validation
• Provide stable development targets and enable bring-up, debugging, and performance evaluation
• Develop low-level drivers and system bring-up code and reference firmware for validation and demos
• Own verification infrastructure: firmware-based test suites, cross-platform validation and CI/CD pipelines
• Proactively identify and resolve HW/SW integration issues
• Evaluate and introduce new tools and methodologies for platform development

Skills

Embedded systems

C/C++

Firmware

Drivers

System bring-up

HW/SW integration

System debugging

Ownership mindset

Tools

SystemVerilog

C

C++

SystemC

Python

Vivado

Renode

VCS

Synopsys Platform

Git

GitHub

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Job description

Synthara AG is a semiconductor company pioneering ComputeRAM®. ComputeRAM transforms memory into a computational engine for AI, signal processing and data-heavy workloads.

Join Synthara's software team to own the virtual platforms for ComputeRAM® as reference systems for pre-silicon software prototyping and HW/SW co-verification. You sit between hardware and software to make both sides work together and expose issues early.