Senior Virtual Platform Engineer - HW/SW Co-Verification

Ignite Next GmbH; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ignite Next GmbH in Zürich seeks a senior embedded systems engineer to own ComputeRAM-like virtual platforms. You will build full-system simulations, integrate RTL, and develop firmware for hardware validation and stress testing.

Work with hardware and software teams to enable bring-up, debugging, and performance evaluation. Drive verification suites, CI/CD, and tool improvements for platform development.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6+ years in embedded systems with HW/SW exposure.
• Strong C/C++ and firmware bring-up experience required.
• Experience with simulators, FPGA prototyping, and system bring-up.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain full-system simulation platforms (ComputeRAM-like).
• Integrate RTL models into simulators and develop low-level firmware.
• Provide stable targets for bring-up, debugging, and performance evaluation.
• Develop drivers and reference firmware for validation and demos.
• Own verification infrastructure: firmware tests and CI/CD pipelines.
• Identify and resolve HW/SW integration issues; drive tool updates.

Skills

Embedded systems

C/C++ development

Firmware debugging

HW/SW integration

SystemVerilog/SystemC

FPGA prototyping

CI/CD

Tools

SystemVerilog

C

C++

SystemC

Python

FPGA Vivado

AMD/Xilinx platforms

Synopsys VCS

Renode

Git/GitHub CI/CD

Job description

Ignite Next GmbH in Zürich seeks a senior embedded systems engineer to own ComputeRAM-like virtual platforms. You will build full-system simulations, integrate RTL, and develop firmware for hardware validation and stress testing.

Work with hardware and software teams to enable bring-up, debugging, and performance evaluation. Drive verification suites, CI/CD, and tool improvements for platform development.