Emulation Engineer – ZeBu & SoC Validation

Cystems Logic Inc; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cystems Logic Inc in Sunnyvale, CA seeks an experienced Emulation Engineer with ZeBu preference. You will develop, deploy, and optimize emulation environments for complex SoC designs, collaborating with RTL, verification, architecture, and software teams to enable pre-silicon validation.

The role involves bringing up ZeBu platforms, RTL preparation, debugging, waveform analysis, and performance tuning to accelerate hardware/software co-verification.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in hardware emulation environments for complex SoCs.
• Strong background in RTL design and verification methodologies.
• Experience with RTL synthesis and emulation implementation flows.
• Familiarity with FPGA-based prototyping and hardware acceleration.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain hardware emulation environments for complex SoC designs.
• Work on Synopsys ZeBu emulation platforms for design bring-up and verification.
• Prepare RTL designs for emulation, including synthesis, partitioning, mapping, and compilation.
• Debug emulation compilation and runtime issues.
• Develop and integrate testbench components for hardware emulation.
• Support hardware/software co-verification and early software bring-up.
• Optimize emulation performance and improve simulation throughput.
• Work closely with RTL and verification teams to resolve design and emulation issues.
• Integrate processor models, memory models, and peripheral interfaces into emulation environments.
• Support debugging of complex SoC designs using waveforms, logs, and trace analysis.
• Develop scripts and automation for emulation flows.
• Support regression execution and verification sign-off activities.

Skills

Hardware emulation

SoC verification

RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog)

Scripting (Python, Perl, Shell)

FPGA-based prototyping

ZeBu platform experience

Tools

Synopsys ZeBu

Job description

Cystems Logic Inc in Sunnyvale, CA seeks an experienced Emulation Engineer with ZeBu preference. You will develop, deploy, and optimize emulation environments for complex SoC designs, collaborating with RTL, verification, architecture, and software teams to enable pre-silicon validation.

The role involves bringing up ZeBu platforms, RTL preparation, debugging, waveform analysis, and performance tuning to accelerate hardware/software co-verification.