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Senior Hardware Emulation Engineer

Google· Google AI/Infrastructure
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Sunnyvale, CA$163k - $236kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Role focused on shaping AI/ML hardware acceleration through advancing TPU technology, developing emulation infrastructure, and supporting ASIC projects with pre-silicon and lab bring-up and validation.

Responsibilities

  • Build, compile, and debug full-chip and multi-die System-on-Chip (SoC) RTL models and tests on hardware emulation platforms.
  • Bring up external interfaces (e.g., PCIe, HBM, DDR5, UCIe, Ethernet, USB) on emulation platforms using transactors, Accelerated VIPs, and speed bridges.
  • Explore verification and emulation methodologies, gather feedback and implement new emulation workflows and CI/CD automation.
  • Partner with firmware, system software, and post-silicon validation teams to drive pre-silicon hardware/software co-verification, shift-left software bring-up, and silicon bug reproduction on emulation.
  • Support emulation and software team members in debugging hardware, tooling, compile, and runtime issues, and act as a technical interface to emulation vendors.

Qualifications

  • Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - 8 years of experience with hardware emulation systems (e.g., Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce), model compilation, runtime performance optimization, and methodology enhancements. - Experience with Verilog/SystemVerilog, C/C++, Python or Perl/TCL scripting, CI/CD automation, and debugging high-speed protocols (e.g., PCIe, HBM, DDR5, UCIe, Ethernet) using waveform tools (e.g., Verdi, SimVision/Indago, GDB). - Experience interfacing with emulation EDA vendors and internal infrastructure teams to triage compiler, tool, and platform issues and guage emulation throughput.

Skills

Required:Hardware emulationVerilog/SystemVerilogC/C++Python or Perl/TCL scriptingCI/CD automationDebugging high-speed protocols

Benefits

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