Lead Emulation Engineer

Job Summary

We are looking for a Lead Emulation Engineer to lead the deployment and execution of complex SoC/IP verification on hardware emulation platforms. The candidate will work closely with design verification, RTL, architecture, firmware, and post-silicon teams to accelerate functional verification, software development, performance validation, and system-level debug.

Experience

Experience - 6-10 years

Responsibilities

• Lead emulation strategy and execution for complex SoC/IP designs.
• Develop and maintain emulation environments for large-scale ASIC/SoC designs.
• Bring up RTL designs on emulation platforms and debug compilation, mapping, and runtime issues.
• Develop and execute emulation-based verification plans.
• Enable software and firmware teams to execute workloads on emulated hardware.
• Support early software bring-up and system-level validation.
• Develop transactors, monitors, BFMs, and other emulation components as required.
• Optimize emulation builds for performance, capacity, and compile/runtime efficiency.
• Debug functional issues across RTL, testbench, emulation environment, and software.
• Work closely with DV teams to migrate suitable simulation-based tests to emulation.
• Develop automation for test execution, regression, data collection, and debug.
• Analyze emulation failures and drive root-cause identification with RTL/DV teams.
• Support performance and stress testing using realistic system workloads.
• Drive emulation methodology improvements and infrastructure enhancements.
• Mentor junior and senior emulation engineers.
• Provide technical leadership during major IP/SoC bring-up milestones.
• Support silicon bring-up by developing reusable emulation-based debug strategies.

Required Technical Skills

• ASIC/SoC emulation.
• Cadence Palladium.
• Synopsys ZeBu.
• SystemVerilog/Verilog.
• UVM-based verification environments and simulation-to-emulation flows.
• Emulation compile, mapping, partitioning, acceleration, and runtime concepts.
• Debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Python, Tcl, Perl, C/C++.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with large, complex SoCs and multi-IP environments.
• Experience with PCIe, UALink, CXL, Ethernet, NoC, memory systems, or other high-speed interfaces.
• Experience with software-driven validation and early firmware enablement.
• Experience developing custom transactors and acceleration models.
• Experience with performance benchmarking and system-level workload validation.
• Experience supporting pre-silicon and post-silicon debug.

Leadership Expectations

• Independently own emulation bring-up and execution for major IPs/subsystems.
• Lead technical discussions with DV, RTL, firmware, and architecture teams.
• Mentor engineers and improve emulation productivity.
• Drive issues to closure while working against aggressive project/tape-out schedules.
• Establish reusable emulation flows and best practices.