Senior Emulation Engineer - AI/SoC Pre-Silicon

Conductor; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsung Semiconductor in the United States, San Jose, CA is seeking a senior hardware engineer specializing in pre-silicon verification, emulation, and FPGA prototyping for memory-centric SoCs. You will build and bring up large-scale hardware emulation platforms and drive prototype bring-up, timing closure, and software integration.

You'll work with Cadence Palladium, Synopsys ZeBu, and Siemens Veloce, collaborating across hardware and software teams to meet ambitious milestones while delivering

Qualifications

• Experience in pre-silicon verification and SoC bring-up.
• Proven track record with FPGA prototyping and large-scale emulation.
• Hands-on with emulation platforms and hardware-software integration.

Responsibilities

• Build, bring up, and maintain large-scale hardware emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms for memory-centric computing SoCs.
• Partition and map multi-million-gate designs onto emulation systems and multi-FPGA prototypes.
• Develop transactors, speed bridges, and co-emulation environments connecting DUT to host software.
• Model memory subsystems, clocks, resets, and high-speed I/O for accurate emulation.
• Enable early firmware and software bring-up with stable targets and debugging infrastructure.
• Run AI/ML workloads and pre-silicon performance benchmarks.
• Debug hardware/software issues using waveform capture, assertions, and coverage.
• Trade-offs between emulation and prototyping for project milestones.
• Develop and automate emulation and prototyping flows using scripting and AI tools.
• Communicate with stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery and budget adherence.
• Complete other responsibilities as assigned.

Skills

Pre-silicon verification

FPGA prototyping

Hardware emulation

DUT bring-up

Scripting (Tcl/Python)

SystemVerilog

Memory modeling

Emulation tooling (Cadence Palladium,

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Master’s degree or PhD in relevant field

Tools

Cadence Palladium

Synopsys ZeBu

Siemens Veloce

Synopsys HAPS

Cadence Protium

Job description

Samsung Semiconductor in the United States, San Jose, CA is seeking a senior hardware engineer specializing in pre-silicon verification, emulation, and FPGA prototyping for memory-centric SoCs. You will build and bring up large-scale hardware emulation platforms and drive prototype bring-up, timing closure, and software integration.

You'll work with Cadence Palladium, Synopsys ZeBu, and Siemens Veloce, collaborating across hardware and software teams to meet ambitious milestones while delivering