Pre-Silicon Emulation Verification Architect

QFocus Technologies LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

QFocus Technologies LLC invites an experienced HVA Emulation Verification Engineer to join our team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will lead pre-silicon emulation environment development, integrating RTL designs onto emulation platforms and optimizing performance.

You will collaborate with design, verification and software teams, and develop automation scripts in Python, Perl, or shell to streamline regressions and verification workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of hardware verification and/or emulation experience.
• Hands-on with major emulation platforms (Cadence Palladium, Synopsys ZeBu, or Siemens Veloce).
• HDLs: Verilog and SystemVerilog.
• SoC knowledge and industry protocols (AXI, PCIe, Ethernet, USB, HVM).
• Experience with UVM/SVA and DPI (desirable).
• Strong Python, Perl, Tcl, or Shell scripting for automation.
• Familiarity with debugging tools (Verdi, SimVision) and waveform analysis (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain pre-silicon emulation platforms.
• Integrate RTL onto emulation platform and optimize synthesisability and performance.
• Troubleshoot emulation flow issues via smoke verification.
• Support validation with bare-metal and OS-based tests on emulation platform.
• Collaborate with design, verification and SW teams to resolve issues.
• Develop automation scripts and flows to manage regressions and improve efficiency.
• Interface with emulation vendors to resolve tool-related issues.

Skills

Verilog / SystemVerilog

SoC architectures

UVM / SVA

Python / Perl / Tcl scripting

C/C++ DPI

Debugging tools (Verdi, SimVision)

Emulation platforms (Cadence Palladium

Education

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

Tools

Cadence Palladium

Synopsys ZeBu

Siemens Veloce

Job description

QFocus Technologies LLC invites an experienced HVA Emulation Verification Engineer to join our team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will lead pre-silicon emulation environment development, integrating RTL designs onto emulation platforms and optimizing performance.

You will collaborate with design, verification and software teams, and develop automation scripts in Python, Perl, or shell to streamline regressions and verification workflows.