Senior Principal Hardware Emulation Architect

SambaNova; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

HSA

Headspace

Gympass+

Job summary

SambaNova is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to build and own the hardware emulation models for the next-generation Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit. You will partner with RTL design to ensure emulation-readiness, and you will own automation and platform flows to keep testing continuous and scalable.

In this senior IC/SoC-oriented role, you will collaborate closely with software, verification, and design teams to deliver a robust pre-silicon model and runtime environments, while maintaining high

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience with emulation.

Responsibilities

• Build emulation models in SystemVerilog and C/C++ for new RDU generations.
• Partner with RTL design to keep designs emulation-compliant and substitute vendor models when needed.
• Own the emulation environment architecture, flows, and memory configuration.
• Develop automated regression workflows so the platform runs continuously.

Skills

SystemVerilog

C/C++

Python scripting

Automation workflows

HW/SW boundary debugging

Emulation platform ownership

Vendor management

Performance analysis

Debugging

Education

BS/MS in EE/CE/CS

Tools

Palladium

Veloce

Zebu

Job description

SambaNova is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to build and own the hardware emulation models for the next-generation Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit. You will partner with RTL design to ensure emulation-readiness, and you will own automation and platform flows to keep testing continuous and scalable.

In this senior IC/SoC-oriented role, you will collaborate closely with software, verification, and design teams to deliver a robust pre-silicon model and runtime environments, while maintaining high