Principal Engineer, Hardware Emulation

SSI San Jose full timeOn Site

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$219k–$351k

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Samsung Semiconductor Principal Engineer, Hardware Emulation at Samsung Semiconductor builds and maintains large-scale hardware emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms for memory-centric computing SoCs. The role enables pre-silicon hardware and software validation.

Responsibilities

Build, bring up, and maintain large-scale hardware emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms for memory-centric computing SoCs, enabling pre-silicon hardware and software validation.
Partition and map complex multi-million-gate designs onto emulation systems and multi-FPGA prototypes, optimizing for capacity, run-time performance, and debug visibility.
Develop transactors, speed bridges, and co-emulation (SCE-MI) environments that connect the design under test to host software and virtual or physical interfaces.
Model memory subsystems, clock and reset schemes, and high-speed I/O interfaces for accurate, high-throughput emulation and prototyping.
Enable early firmware, driver, and software bring-up by delivering stable emulation and prototype targets with robust debug infrastructure.
Run AI/ML workloads and performance benchmarks pre-silicon to validate functionality and system-level performance.
Debug complex hardware and software issues using waveform capture, assertions, and coverage, driving root-cause analysis together with design, verification, and software teams.
Make trade-offs between emulation and prototyping — capacity, speed, bring-up time, and debug — to select the right platform for each project milestone.
Develop and automate emulation and prototyping flows (compile, partitioning, and build) using scripting and agentic AI tools and frameworks to improve turnaround time and quality of results.
Communicate effectively with stakeholders, including users, partners, and management, to ensure that designs are delivered on time and within budget.
Complete other responsibilities as assigned.
Bachelor’s with 20+ years, or Master’s with 18+ years, or PhD's with 15+ years of industry experience.

Qualification

Experience with emulation compile flow

Required

BS in Computer/Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Computer Science with 20 years experience or MS with 18 years experience
Emulation experience on Palladium or Zebu platforms
Experience with emulation compile flow, wave dump & triggers, waveform debug, running tests
Experience writing scripts in Perl or Python
Exposure to Makefile or other build flows

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
PTO
Wellness
Flexible Work

Company

Samsung Semiconductor

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10000+ employees

Consumer Electronics

Founded 1938

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