ASIC Emulation & Verification Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: ASIC Emulation & Verification Engineer (Palladium Specialist)

• Focus: Cadence Palladium emulation bring-up, firmware co-verification, and UVM/SystemVerilog verification

Description

Bring up complex ASIC IP and SoC designs on Cadence Palladium emulation platforms by converting RTL databases into emulation-ready models and running high-speed hardware acceleration. Support pre-silicon verification with UVM-based simulation, verification closure, and debugging. Drive firmware co-verification and build automation for compile and Palladium regression flows.

Responsibilities

• Palladium emulation & bring-up: compile, synthesize, and map complex RTL databases onto Cadence Palladium hardware acceleration systems; resolve compilation errors; manage clocking/memory overrides; bring up full-chip and sub-system emulation models.

• Firmware co-verification: partner with firmware teams to accelerate early firmware bring-up on Palladium; provide hardware models, map memory spaces, and configure virtual debuggers such as JTAG to boot low-level bootloaders, drivers, and operating systems before silicon.

• Standard simulation verification: perform pre-silicon verification tasks using SystemVerilog and UVM; author test cases; develop monitors/checkers; debug RTL anomalies with waveform viewers.

• Debug & triage: diagnose complex hardware/testbench/environment issues on Palladium using advanced hardware-debugging features; root-cause failures across simulation and emulation environments.

• Infrastructure & automation: build and maintain automated scripts to compile the RTL database and launch Palladium regressions; manage database hand-offs between design release teams and the emulation environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 8+ years of hardware description or verification experience; or Master’s degree with 6+ years of relevant experience.

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus.

• New hire equity grant and annual equity awards (subject to plan documents and award agreements).

• Medical, dental and vision plans; 401(K) with company matching.

• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP); Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Company-paid holidays; paid sick leave and vacation.

• Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence per applicable laws.