Emulation & FPGA Prototyping Engineer

Voltai; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Voltai is seeking an engineer to bring designs to life before silicon. You will own emulation and FPGA prototyping for SoCs and subsystems, enabling Voltai's AI to learn debugging at a system scale.

You will map designs to Palladium/ZeBu/Veloce/HAPS, enable early software bring-up, and perform performance analyses. Strong SystemVerilog and scripting skills are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of emulation or FPGA prototyping experience.
• Hands-on experience with Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce, or HAPS.
• Strong SystemVerilog and FPGA tooling (Vivado, Quartus) experience.
• Experience with hardware/software co-verification and debug.
• Python, Tcl, or C/C++ scripting.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms for SoCs and subsystems.
• Map designs onto emulators and FPGAs, including partitioning and timing closure.
• Enable early software bring-up, system validation, and performance analysis.
• Debug complex hardware/software issues at system scale.
• Build automation for emulation compile, run, and triage.
• Generate system-level data that helps train and evaluate Voltai's models.

Skills

Emulation

FPGA prototyping

SystemVerilog

Scripting (Python/Tcl/C/C++)

Tools

Palladium

ZeBu

Veloce

HAPS

Vivado

Quartus

Job description

About Voltai

Voltai is developing world models, and agents to learn, evaluate, plan, experiment, and interact with the physical world. We are starting out with understanding and building hardware; electronics systems and semiconductors where AI can design and create beyond human cognitive limits.

About The Team

Backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors, Stanford University, and CEOs/Presidents of Google, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, etc. We are a team of previous Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, Olympiad medalists (IPhO, IOI, etc.), the inventors of IC3 and the Murphi verification system, CTOs of Synopsys & GlobalFoundries, Head of Sales & CRO of Cadence, former US Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Senior Foreign-Policy Advisor to four US presidents.

About This Role

You’ll bring designs to life before silicon exists. You’ll own emulation and FPGA prototyping on real silicon programs with leading semiconductor companies while helping Voltai's AI learn to debug at system scale.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms for SoCs and subsystems.


• Map designs onto emulators and FPGAs, including partitioning and timing closure.


• Enable early software bring-up, system validation, and performance analysis.


• Debug complex hardware/software issues at system scale.


• Build automation for emulation compile, run, and triage.


• Generate system-level data that helps train and evaluate Voltai's models.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of emulation or FPGA prototyping experience.


• Hands-on experience with Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce, or HAPS.


• Strong SystemVerilog and FPGA tooling (Vivado, Quartus) experience.


• Experience with hardware/software co-verification and debug.


• Python, Tcl, or C/C++ scripting.

Bonus Points

• Experience with transactors and hybrid emulation.


• Linux driver or firmware bring-up experience.


• Interest in AI-assisted design tools.