Senior FPGA Prototyping & Hardware Emulation Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 311,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Systems Prototyping and Emulation Engineer to craft FPGA prototypes and emulation environments for GPUs, SOCs, NICs, and Switches. This onsite role involves coordinating across geographies to solve complex problems daily.

You will drive bring-up, validation, and debug activities, improve performance, and ensure correct design implementation on prototyping platforms, with broad exposure to pre-silicon software validation and scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering, or MS with substantial FPGA prototyping/hardware emulation experience.
• Strong understanding of FPGA prototyping and hardware emulation architectures, devices, flows, and tools.
• Hands-on experience with primary tools including ProtoCompiler/Synplify Premier, Xilinx Vivado, and emulation platforms (ZeBu/Veloce).
• Exposure to ASIC design/verification tools (VCS/Verdi/GDB) and knowledge of Verilog/SystemVerilog.

Responsibilities

• Build FPGA prototypes and hardware emulation environments by making RTL FPGA/emulation-friendly, partitioning the design, and taking it through synthesis, place-and-route, and emulator compilation flows.
• Improve performance of FPGA prototypes and emulation platforms, analyze timing/performance bottlenecks, and generate bitstreams/images.
• Bring up designs on FPGA prototyping and hardware emulation platforms and drive complex debug and problem-solving activities.
• Release prototypes and emulation environments to internal customers and support them through debug, validation, and software enablement.
• Understand the design and implementation, define configurations, develop/modify bring-up and testing infrastructure, and verify correctness of the design.
• Understand complex system topologies with multiple ASICs to realize DGX systems on prototyping platforms and emulators.
• Work closely with architects, designers, verification engineers, validation teams, and software teams to accomplish project goals.
• Enable pre-silicon software development, validation, and performance analysis using FPGA prototypes and hardware emulation environments.
• Develop and optimize emulation-friendly validation infrastructures, including high-performance software interfaces and scalable debug methodologies.

Skills

FPGA prototyping

Hardware emulation

RTL design

Verilog

SystemVerilog

C/C++ testbenches

Debugging complex systems

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

MS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Synopsys ProtoCompiler

Synplify Premier

Xilinx Vivado

Synopsys ZeBu

Siemens Veloce

Job description

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Systems Prototyping and Emulation Engineer to craft FPGA prototypes and emulation environments for GPUs, SOCs, NICs, and Switches. This onsite role involves coordinating across geographies to solve complex problems daily.

You will drive bring-up, validation, and debug activities, improve performance, and ensure correct design implementation on prototyping platforms, with broad exposure to pre-silicon software validation and scalable infrastructure.