Senior Emulation Engineer: Connectivity SoCs & EDA Flows

MatX Inc.; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks PTO

Company health plan

401K

Parental leave

AI resources

Job summary

MatX Inc. is seeking a Senior/Staff Emulation Engineer to build the infrastructure, flows, and debug methodology for advanced connectivity SoCs in Mountain View.

This multi-disciplinary role spans RTL, software, tooling, system debug, and vendor flows, with a reuse-first mindset and rapid learning across domains. You will define emulation strategies, bring up large models, integrate external adapters, and develop HW/SW co-emulation flows using Rust, C/C++, SystemC, and Python.

Qualifications

• Hands-on emulation or system-level validation experience.
• Experience with Palladium, Zebu, or Veloce platforms.
• Strong scripting and software skills.
• Ability to build reusable flows and transactors.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute emulation strategy and test plans for complex connectivity SoCs.
• Bring up and debug large-scale models on commercial emulation platforms such as Cadence Palladium, Zebu or Veloce.
• Integrate external components such as SpeedBridge and VirtualBridge adapters, Accelerated VIP, and memory models — for PCIe, HBM4, Ethernet, AXI/AMBA, JTAG, and (Q)SPI. And build custom transactors where needed.
• Develop HW/SW co-emulation and co-simulation flows using RTL, software/reference models (Rust, C/C++, SystemC), firmware, and software tests.
• Build reusable transactors, agents, stubs, bridges, checkers, and acceleration flows — including developing new transactors and agents from scratch when off-the-shelf options don't fit.
• Drive emulation speed-ups and resource utilization — compile-time reduction, partitioning, clocking strategy, regression scheduling, multi-user capacity, and waveform/trace management.
• Build automation for regression triage, debug, model usability, and engineering productivity.
• Go beyond prompting with AI — build practical LLM-based tooling for log analysis, waveform triage, debug assistance, and flow generation, including custom skills, agents, rules, and workflows that fit our engineering stack.
• Collaborate with architecture, RTL, DV, SoC, firmware, driver, kernel, validation, and EDA/vendor teams.

Skills

Emulation engineering

SystemVerilog

Python

C/C++

Rust

Automation

Debugging

Tools

Cadence Palladium

Zebu

Veloce

Job description

MatX Inc. is seeking a Senior/Staff Emulation Engineer to build the infrastructure, flows, and debug methodology for advanced connectivity SoCs in Mountain View.

This multi-disciplinary role spans RTL, software, tooling, system debug, and vendor flows, with a reuse-first mindset and rapid learning across domains. You will define emulation strategies, bring up large models, integrate external adapters, and develop HW/SW co-emulation flows using Rust, C/C++, SystemC, and Python.