Silicon Hardware Emulation Engineer, Google Cloud
Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 4 years of industry experience with RTL design and simulation.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Develop and maintain ASIC emulation infrastructure and workflows, supporting TPU prototyping, compilation, debugging, validation, and hardware bring-up.
What you'll do
- Maintain and upgrade emulation infrastructure and interface with emulation vendors.
- Develop emulation workflows and methodologies, incorporating team feedback.
- Support hardware, tooling, and software test debugging; bring up external interfaces and create standalone test cases for emulation tool issues.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of industry experience with RTL design and simulation.
- Experience coding or scripting in C, C++, Perl, TCL, or Python.
- Experience with emulation systems, compilation, debugging, performance, and methodology enhancements.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in a listed field, with an emphasis on computer architecture.
- Experience with performance analysis/debug techniques; knowledge of external I/O interfaces or computer architecture.
Pay
$138000 - $197000 USD base salary
Tools
Verilog, System Verilog, VCS, Incisive, Questa, C, C++, Python
AI focus
Supports TPU hardware acceleration for AI/ML applications through ASIC emulation and prototyping.
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