Emulation Engineer (ZeBu) – SoC Validation & Performance

Cystems Logic Inc; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cystems Logic Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an experienced Emulation Engineer (ZeBu Preferred) to develop and optimize hardware emulation environments for complex SoC designs.

You will collaborate with RTL, verification, architecture, and software teams to enable pre-silicon validation and accelerate co-verification. The role requires hands-on work with Synopsys ZeBu emulation platforms, RTL synthesis and partitioning, and debugging across compilation and runtime phases.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in hardware emulation and SoC verification.
• Good understanding of digital design concepts and RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog).
• Experience with RTL synthesis and emulation implementation flows.
• Knowledge of FPGA-based prototyping and hardware acceleration.
• Experience with emulation debugging and performance optimization.
• Understanding of SoC architecture, buses, interfaces, and IP integration.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Shell.
• Ability to collaborate with RTL design, verification, and software teams.

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 design (Verilog/SystemVerilog)

Scripting (Python/Perl/Shell)

FPGA prototyping

Emulation debugging

Performance optimization

Co-verification collaboration

Tools

Synopsys ZeBu

Job description

Cystems Logic Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an experienced Emulation Engineer (ZeBu Preferred) to develop and optimize hardware emulation environments for complex SoC designs.

You will collaborate with RTL, verification, architecture, and software teams to enable pre-silicon validation and accelerate co-verification. The role requires hands-on work with Synopsys ZeBu emulation platforms, RTL synthesis and partitioning, and debugging across compilation and runtime phases.