Validation/Emulation Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Founded in 1984, our client excels at developing complex chip designs where feature integration and innovation is a premium. Our client has more than 2,200 pending and issued patents worldwide that are key to our products which serve more than 3,100 end customers globally, through both direct and distributor-based channel sales.

The company’s headquarters are in Austin, Texas, with offices in Phoenix, Ariz., and international locations in Europe, China and Japan. In June 2012 p relocated to our new headquarters building at 800 West 6th Street in downtown Austin.
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Job Description

Description

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

Additional Information

Bonus Eligible!!!!
 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

Ideal Candidate should have worked for the following company(ies):

Intel on Atom processor
AMD
Samsung
IBM
Maxim
Linear Tech
Intersil

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Downtown Austin, great internal culture
great compensation
Happy Hour Fridays
concert days


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Our Company is an equal opportunity employer, and encourages all qualified candidates to apply for any position we currently have open. We offer competitive compensation, outstanding benefits and the professional advantages of an environment that supports your development and recognizes your achievements.

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