Senior Design Lead

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Emulation Engineer with 7-10 years of experience in ASIC/SoC verification and emulation. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in building, deploying, and debugging complex designs on hardware emulation platforms and accelerating pre-silicon verification for large-scale SoCs. Experience with advanced AI, Datacenter, Networking, Automotive, or HPC SoCs is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize emulation environments for complex ASIC/SoC programs.
• Perform design bring-up, partitioning, compilation, and debug on emulation platforms.
• Collaborate with Design, Verification, Firmware, and Validation teams for pre-silicon verification activities.
• Debug emulation failures and analyze issues across RTL, testbench, and software stacks.
• Enable and execute SoC-level use cases, firmware boot, software regression, and system validation in emulation.
• Drive performance optimization of emulation runs, regression infrastructure, and debug workflows.
• Support verification acceleration, HW/SW co-verification, and early software development.
• Develop automation scripts and flows to improve emulation productivity and scalability.

Skill Requirements

Required Skills

• Strong understanding of ASIC/SoC architecture and verification lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience with industry-standard emulation platforms such as:
• Cadence Palladium
• Synopsys ZeBu
• Siemens Veloce
• Good knowledge of Verilog/SystemVerilog and simulation-based verification methodologies.
• Experience with design partitioning, clocking strategies, probes, triggers, and emulation debug.
• Strong debugging skills across RTL, software, and system-level environments.
• Experience with Linux environments, scripting, and automation using Python, Perl, TCL, or Shell.
• Familiarity with HW/SW co-verification and firmware-driven validation.

Other Requirements

Hands-on emulation engineer with proven experience on Palladium, ZeBu, or Veloce, capable of handling large-scale SoCs and enabling early software execution, system validation, and verification acceleration for next-generation AI, Datacenter, Networking, Automotive, or HPC products.