VALIDATION/EMULATION ENGINEER

VALIDATION/EMULATION ENGINEER 

5+ to 7 years experience

Responsibilities include:

    Develop and execute the emulation and validation test plans for new products

    Develop scalable lab validation infrastructure, including scripts and hardware setups

    Design and debug emulation system hardware

    Set up and maintain software tool flows supporting RTL synthesis to an FPGA.

    Define and execute experiments to support product design

    Debug and troubleshoot lab setup issues

 Qualifications:

    Bachelor/Masters in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 5 to 10 years of experience in a validation engineering role

    Extensive experience verifying digital and analog circuits, and system performance

    Strong ability to architect lab validation environments, including test bench setups and the software environment. 

    Strong communication, documentation, and organization skills, along with project leadership capabilities. 

    Ability to understand silicon, board hardware, and software interactions, including interactions that encompass customer usage models

    PCB design skills for high-performance analog and digital circuits. Experience with FPGA integration and serial communication buses is highly desired

    Experience with creating or maintaining RTL images for emulation. Experience with Verilog development is a highly desired

    Ability to develop a statement of work for experiments, and develop the test solutions to deliver on the statement of work

    Very strong skills and experience using oscilloscopes, multi-meters, frequency domain signal analyzers, analog test stimulus generation equipment

    Experience with scripting languages such as Perl and/or Matlab is highly desired.

    Basic skills in statistical analysis

SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS

verilog to FPGA? 

pre-silicon experience? 

Xilinx? 

working for a semiconductor design house presently? 

IDEAL CANDIDATE

need to write Verilog to FPGA

pre-silicon validation experience

"silicon emulation on FPGA devices

Xilinx experience preferred