Senior Emulation & FPGA Prototyping Engineer

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

Job summary

Samsung Semiconductor seeks a senior hardware verification engineer to lead emulation and FPGA prototyping for memory‑centric SoCs. You will bring up large‑scale platforms, partition designs, and develop co‑emulation environments to connect DUT with host software.

Your work enables early firmware bring‑up and AI/ML benchmarking pre‑silicon. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in pre‑silicon verification and large‑scale emulation, with strong Verilog/SystemVerilog and scripting skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in pre-silicon verification and SoC bring-up.
• 5+ years in FPGA prototyping and large-scale hardware emulation.
• Experience with Cadence Palladium or Synopsys ZeBu platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain large-scale hardware emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms.
• Partition multi‑million‑gate designs onto emulation systems and multi‑FPGA prototypes.
• Develop transactors and co-emulation environments connecting design under test to host software.
• Model memory subsystems, clocks, resets, and high‑speed I/O for accurate emulation.
• Enable early firmware bring‑up with stable targets and robust debugging.
• Run AI/ML workloads pre‑silicon to validate functionality and performance.
• Debug hardware/software issues with waveform capture, assertions, and coverage.
• Choose platforms, balance capacity/speed and bring‑up time per project milestone.
• Automate flows using scripting and AI tools to improve turnaround time.

Skills

Pre-silicon verification

FPGA prototyping

Large-scale hardware emulation

Cadence Palladium

Synopsys ZeBu

Synopsys HAPS

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Scripting (Tcl/Python/Perl)

AI/ML workloads

Analytical thinking

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Master's in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

PhD in a related field

Tools

Cadence Palladium

Synopsys ZeBu

Siemens Veloce

Synopsys HAPS

Cadence Protium

PCIe/DDR/HBM/AXI interfaces

Job description

Samsung Semiconductor seeks a senior hardware verification engineer to lead emulation and FPGA prototyping for memory‑centric SoCs. You will bring up large‑scale platforms, partition designs, and develop co‑emulation environments to connect DUT with host software.

Your work enables early firmware bring‑up and AI/ML benchmarking pre‑silicon. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in pre‑silicon verification and large‑scale emulation, with strong Verilog/SystemVerilog and scripting skills.