Senior ASIC Emulation Engineer, HW & SW

Amazon Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Austin, TXSunnyvale, CA
Salary: $183,000–$247,600 / yr
Posted: 13 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Senior ASIC Emulation Engineer, HW & SW

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As a Sr. ASIC Emulation Engineer – HW&SW , Amazon Leo, you will join a diverse team focused on platform level verification for newly developed modems. You will be responsible for defining the emulation bring-up environment for ASIC and system level designs while building and maintaining C++ based testbench frameworks. Your daily work involves developing bare metal code, writing scripts, debugging complex hardware issues, and creating verification test plans to optimize performance and resource utilization. The role requires expertise in industry-standard platforms like Cadence Palladium or Mentor Veloce, along with proficiency in Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, C/C++, Python, Tcl, and Perl. You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to solve technical roadblocks in the development of next-generation modem products, ensuring robust integration across architecture, systems, and silicon validation stages for both consumer and enterprise hardware.

Skills

ASIC Emulation Cadence Palladium Mentor Veloce Verilog SystemVerilog VHDL C++ Python Tcl Perl AMBA AXI4 Bare Metal Embedded Firmware UVM CI/CD

What you'll do

Build and bring up emulation models for complex SoC designs.
Develop and maintain C++ based emulation testbench frameworks.
Debug complex hardware issues using advanced emulation platforms.
Create and execute verification test plans to validate designs.
Write scripts and develop bare metal code for IP bring-up.
Partner with software teams to perform software bring-up and root-cause bugs.
Optimize emulation performance and resource utilization.
Document technical specifications, processes, and methodologies.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
10+ years of experience in SOC emulation and validation.
Expertise with industry-standard emulation platforms such as Cadence Palladium or Mentor Veloce.
Proficiency in Hardware Description Languages including Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL.
Proficiency in C/C++ programming and scripting in Python, Tcl, and/or Perl.
Ability to perform low-level firmware development and bare metal code.
Experience with ARM-based SOC architectures and high-performance buses like AMBA AXI4.
Must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or granted asylum/refugee status for export control compliance.