Senior Hardware Emulation Engineer, Google
Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years; preferred experience across three or more SoC projects/tapeout cycles.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Builds and maintains hardware-emulation infrastructure and workflows to verify, bring up, and validate complex TPU and other ASIC designs before and after silicon production.
What you'll do
- Build, compile, and debug full-chip and multi-die SoC RTL models and tests on emulation platforms.
- Bring up external interfaces and develop emulation workflows, verification methodologies, and CI/CD automation.
- Partner with firmware, software, and validation teams to co-verify hardware, debug platform issues, and reproduce silicon bugs on emulation.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience with hardware emulation systems, model compilation, runtime performance optimization, and methodology enhancements.
- Experience with Verilog/SystemVerilog, C/C++, Python or Perl/TCL scripting, CI/CD automation, and debugging high-speed protocols using waveform tools.
- Experience working with emulation EDA vendors and internal infrastructure teams to triage issues and gauge emulation throughput.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, emphasizing computer architecture.
- Experience across three or more SoC projects/tapeout cycles; experience architecting and bringing up advanced emulation testbench environments.
Pay
$163000 - $236000 (USD) base salary; 15% bonus target (amount not stated) + equity (amount not stated)
Tools
TPU, Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce, Verilog/SystemVerilog, C/C++, Python, Perl/TCL
AI focus
Supports TPU hardware acceleration for AI/ML applications through emulation, verification, and hardware/software co-verification.
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