Samsung
Principal Engineer, Hardware Emulation
$219K–$351K
San Jose, California, United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 20 years with a BS, or 18 years with an MS; relevant experience.
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer/Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Computer Science.
About the job
Develop and maintain hardware emulation infrastructure, models, workflows, and debug capabilities to validate networking-chip subsystems before silicon and reproduce silicon failures.
What you'll do
- Bring up and maintain emulation platforms and chip-level models; develop monitors and checkers.
- Improve emulation methodology and debug performance, area, hardware, and tool issues with vendors and cross-functional teams.
- Support pre-silicon validation, software-test bring-up, test planning, and analysis of emulation results.
What they ask for
- Experience with Palladium or Zebu emulation platforms, including compile flows, waveform dumping and triggers, waveform debugging, and running tests.
- Experience writing scripts in Perl or Python.
- Good understanding of Verilog and SystemVerilog RTL; exposure to synthesizable code and SVAs.
- BS in Computer/Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Computer Science with 20 years of relevant experience, or MS in those fields with 18 years of relevant experience (stated as preferred).
Nice to have
- Exposure to Makefile or other build flows.
- Experience with waveform debug tools such as Verdi/SimVision.
Pay
$219,000 — $351,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Palladium, Zebu, Perl, Python, Makefile, Verdi, SimVision, Verilog
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