Silicon Emulation Engineer for AI Hardware

Google; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 138,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud seeks a Silicon Hardware Emulation Engineer to shape AI/ML hardware acceleration with a focus on TPU integration. You will lead emulation infrastructure, collaborate with design, verification, and software teams, and work with external vendors to drive prototyping and bring-up of ASIC projects.

The role emphasizes developing and maintaining emulation workflows, debugging complex designs, and supporting prototyping for Google's TPU initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 4 years RTL design and simulation experience.
• Experience with coding/scripting in C, C++, Python, Tcl or Perl.
• Experience with emulation systems and related verification methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and upgrade emulation infrastructure and act as primary interface to emulation vendors.
• Develop and improve emulation workflows and methodologies.
• Assist debugging hardware, tooling and project-specific issues; run tests and validate emulation platforms.
• Bring up external interfaces (USB, PCIe, Ethernet) on emulation platforms and create standalone test cases.

Skills

RTL design

Verilog/SystemVerilog

C/C++/Python scripting

Emulation workflow

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/CE/CS

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

VCS/Incisive/Questa

ZeBu

Palladium

Veloce

PCIe/DDR5/JTAG interfaces

Job description

Google Cloud seeks a Silicon Hardware Emulation Engineer to shape AI/ML hardware acceleration with a focus on TPU integration. You will lead emulation infrastructure, collaborate with design, verification, and software teams, and work with external vendors to drive prototyping and bring-up of ASIC projects.

The role emphasizes developing and maintaining emulation workflows, debugging complex designs, and supporting prototyping for Google's TPU initiatives.