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We work in close collaboration with other expertise centers in imec specializing in applications, technology, circuits and design to innovate and pathfind next-generation compute system architectures across multiple domains – AI, HPC, Automotive, Space, and more. CSA has presence in 6 centers of IMEC, in Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, UK, USA and Qatar. This position is primarily for Leuven, Belgium. \nWe are looking for a \nVirtual Platform R&D Engineer to develop, enable, and maintain our baseline platform across functional models, complex simulation environments, and towards RTL prototyping. 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