Pre-Silicon Emulation Engineer for ASIC Validation & Automation

MetAntz; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

MetAntz seeks a skilled Hardware Emulation Engineer to join a client-facing team delivering ASIC solutions for data center and AI infrastructure. You will lead pre-silicon validation using emulation platforms, ensuring high-quality hardware before production.

Role emphasizes independent work, cross-functional collaboration with design, verification and SW, and automation of verification flows using Python, Perl, and shell scripting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Emulation Environment Development: Build and maintain pre-silicon emulation platforms using Cadence Palladium, Synopsys ZeBu, or Veloce.
• Model Integration and Optimization: Integrate RTL onto emulation platform, ensure synthesizability, optimize build efficiency and performance.
• Smoke verification to identify emulation flow issues.
• Assist validation with bare-metal/OS-based tests to accelerate bug finding.
• Collaborate with design, verification and SW teams to resolve issues.
• Develop and enhance automation scripts in Python, Perl, and shell.
• Interface with emulation tool vendors to troubleshoot issues.
• Ability to work independently and drive tasks to completion.

Skills

Verilog

SystemVerilog

SoC architectures

AXI

PCIe

USB

UVM

SVA

Python

C/C++ DPI

Verdi

SimVision

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Tools

Cadence Palladium

Synopsys ZeBu

Siemens Veloce

Job description

MetAntz seeks a skilled Hardware Emulation Engineer to join a client-facing team delivering ASIC solutions for data center and AI infrastructure. You will lead pre-silicon validation using emulation platforms, ensuring high-quality hardware before production.

Role emphasizes independent work, cross-functional collaboration with design, verification and SW, and automation of verification flows using Python, Perl, and shell scripting.