Job Summary
The SHIFT-LEFT/Pre-Silicon Emulation Lead would set technical direction for SoC emulation teams in the US, including subcontractors located worldwide. Responsibilities include enhancing build/debug emulation methodology and flows, mentoring junior engineers, working with design/verification teams for collateral, selecting hardware, interfacing with software/platform teams, and setting high-level technical vision. Projects span a variety of business lines and will need to meet both verification and system/software enablement goals. Engagement and collaboration across global sites is a key aspect of this role as alignment of methods is essential. Strong technical, communication, and consensus building skills will be required as well as a demonstrated ability to influence solutions across a global organization. The ideal candidate will partner with global SoC teams to drive best practices with a target of productivity improvement.
Job Responsibilities
- Drive emulation delivery for a multitude of projects
- Lead functional debug of complex SOCs using emulation
- Drive SoC verification using emulation (Accelerated Verification)
- Provide technical guidance/help to the team on debugging complex issues
- Work with architects and verification teams to ensure functional coverage
- Train and mentor engineers to deliver high quality and increase productivity
- Innovate improvements to emulation methodology, working with partners across other geographies
- Interface with software teams and customers to enable emulation models for early system development.
- Work with various EDA vendors to deploy next generation emulation technologies
- Build strong collaboration with other R&D teams such as Design, Verification, digital IP, Design Enablement, and Validation to achieve project milestones
- Promote continuous improvement to enhance bug finding capabilities and ensure ‘Zero Defect’ chips
Job Qualifications
- BS/MS/PhD with 10+ years of experience in Semiconductor industry
- Extensive hands-on SoC debug & Verification experience required
- Exceptional experience with complex, multi-core SoC’s with complex interconnects and a large range of peripherals required
- Strong domain knowledge of Clocking, System modes, Power management, Debug, security and other architectures is a must
- Experience with various emulation/accelerator methods and use-case environments is a plus
- Any of following experience would be a plus: High Speed Peripherals like DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, GPU, VPU (Video Processing Unit); NIC/FlexNOC interconnect; Flash memory subsystems.
- Scripting/coding abilities also a plus, especially using Python
Location
- This position is located in Austin, TX. We offer a hybrid work schedule where you are in the office 2-3 days a week and spend the other 2-3 days working from home. This is a position that CANNOT be done 100% remotely, so living the greater Austin area is necessary.
