# Principal FPGA Emulation Engineer (Semiconductor Industry)

About the Role Renesas is seeking a Principal FPGA Emulation & Prototyping Engineer to build and own the FPGA-based platforms that emulate our mixed-signal power ASICs before silicon. Working shoulder to shoulder with our silicon RTL and DSP architects, you will bring their designs up on FPGA to validate real-time digital, mixed-signal, and power-control architectures pre-silicon - proving out control loops, catching RTL issues early, and de-risking tape-out. These FPGA platforms are emulation vehicles, not production hardware. Success is measured by how faithfully and how fast they reproduce the target silicon: functional equivalence to the golden ASIC RTL, real-time (or near-real-time) performance for closed-loop power and DSP validation, and deep visibility for pre-silicon debug. What You'll Do Partner closely with silicon RTL and DSP architects to bring ASIC designs up on FPGA - advising on FPGA-ability and turning architectural intent into a working, real-time emulation platform. Adapt ASIC RTL for FPGA emulation while preserving functional equivalence to the golden design - handling clock-gating conversion, memory/SRAM macro mapping, reset and initialization schemes, tri-stat

- **Id**: 4084972
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/renesas-electronics-principal-fpga-emulation-engineer-semiconductor-industry>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T15:46:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T10:43:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6529
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, Automotive Components, Analog & Power Semiconductors

## Company

- **Id**: 3481
- **Name**: Renesas Electronics
- **Domain**: renesas.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/renesas-electronics>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 107
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.991
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 32
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SystemVerilog** — Optional: no
- **VHDL** — Optional: no
- **Xilinx Vivado** — Optional: no
- **Agile** — Optional: yes
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **Cadence Protium** — Optional: yes
- **MATLAB** — Optional: yes
- **Siemens Veloce** — Optional: yes
- **Simulink** — Optional: yes
- **Synopsys HAPS** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T18:38:56Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 60 · green card filings: 30; Filings 12m: 60

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:5, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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