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Are you interested in pushing the boundaries of innovation to make FPGA prototypes and emulation platforms faster, more scalable, and more efficient? Can you work in a fast-paced environment that requires coordination between many teams across geographies and solving sophisticated problems daily? If so, we are looking for hardworking systems engineers who will craft FPGA prototypes and emulation environments for our next generation GPUs, SOCs, NICs, and Switches on industry-standard FPGA prototyping and emulation platforms. We are now looking for aSenior Systems Prototyping and Emulation Engineerto join our Emulation team onsite in Santa Clara, CA.\nWhat you’ll be doing:\nBuild FPGA prototypes and hardware emulation environments by making RTL FPGA/emulation-friendly, partitioning the design, and taking it through synthesis, place-and-route, and emulator compilation flows.\n\nImprove performance of FPGA prototypes and emulation platforms, analyze timing/performance bottlenecks, and generate bitstreams/images.\n\nBring up designs on FPGA prototyping and hardware emulation platforms and drive complex debug and problem-solving activities.\n\nRelease prototypes and emulation environments to internal customers and support them through debug, validation, and software enablement.\n\nUnderstand the design and implementation, define configurations, develop/modify bring-up and testing infrastructure, and verify correctness of the design.\n\nUnderstand complex system topologies with multiple ASICs to realize DGX systems on prototyping platforms and emulators.\n\nWork closely with architects, designers, verification engineers, validation teams, and software teams to accomplish project goals.\n\nEnable pre-silicon software development, validation, and performance analysis using FPGA prototypes and hardware emulation environments.\n\nDevelop and optimize emulation-friendly validation infrastructures, including high-performance software interfaces and scalable debug methodologies.\n\nWhat we need to see:\nBS (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields with 8+ years of experience, or MS with 6+ years of proven experience in FPGA prototyping and/or hardware emulation.\n\nStrong understanding of FPGA prototyping and hardware emulation architectures, devices, flows, and tools.\n\nHands-on experience with Synopsys ProtoCompiler or Synplify Premier, Xilinx Vivado, and familiarity with emulation platforms such as Synopsys ZeBu or Siemens Veloce.\n\nExposure to ASIC design and verification tools (VCS or equivalent, Verdi, GDB).\n\nKnowledge of Verilog, SystemVerilog, and digital design concepts.\n\nUnderstanding of industry-standard protocols such as PCIe, CXL, NVLINK, USB, CHI, and CPU-GPU coherency.\n\nHands-on experience with lab FPGA debug methodologies, tools (Identify or ChipScope), and lab debug equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers).\n\nStrong expertise in developing and optimizingemulation-friendly C/C++ testbenches and transactors that can operate efficiently at emulation speeds is a critical skill for this role and experience minimizing host-emulator communication bottlenecks, improving transaction throughput, and architecting scalable software-driven validation environments for high-performance SoCs and multi-ASIC systems.\n\nAbility to develop efficient DPI/PLI/SystemC-based interfaces and software infrastructures that enable high-speed validation, debug, and bring-up on hardware emulation platforms.\n\nWays to stand out from the crowd:\nScripting knowledge (Perl/shell/Tcl/Python) is desired.\n\nGood documentation, communication, and interpersonal skills.\n\nExperience with memory bring-up of LPDDR5/6, DDR5/6, CXL/PCIe, and/or high-speed interfaces such as USB4/3 is desirable.\n\nPrior experience with hardware emulation or prototyping platforms (Synopsys HAPS, ZeBu, Siemens Veloce) of a high-performance processor or SOC is highly desirable.\n\nUnderstanding of performance-sensitive validation methodologies for large-scale emulation environments, including efficient logging, synchronization, memory handling, and protocol traffic generation and experience enabling pre-silicon software validation, firmware bring-up, or system-level debug on emulation platforms is a plus!\n\nNVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI - the next era of computing. NVIDIA is a “learning machine” that constantly evolves by adapting to new opportunities that are hard to solve, that only we can tackle, and that matter to the world. This is our life’s work, to amplify human imagination and intelligence. Make the choice to join us today!\nYour base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4, and 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD for Level 5.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.\nApplications for this job will be accepted at least until October 10, 2026.This posting is for an existing vacancy.\nNVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.\nNVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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