Sr. Emulation Engineer

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder) or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.


Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
Implement state of the art verification environments for ASIC emulation and prototyping
Create testbenches on these platforms to allow for functional verification of pre-silicon designs
Incorporate reference Matlab/C models in verification environments
Work with design and systems teams to establish approach and methodology to efficiently use these platforms for system-level verification
Work with firmware and software teams to enable and support their development on these platforms
Develop detailed test plans write tests run regressions collect metrics and report progress to the program
Participate in planning and execution of post-silicon bring-up activities




A day in the life
Be part of Project Kuipers sub-team responsible for defining and implementing the digital chip SOCs for communications via Low Earth Orbit satellites and Amazon gateways. This is a unique opportunity to define a groundbreaking wireless solution with few legacy constraints. The team works with customer requirements and wireless system teams to define modems high-speed interfaces embedded processors and DSP solutions in latest CMOS generation technologies.


About the team
Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

Bachelors degree in Electrical / Communications Engineering or Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
7 years in design verification of ASIC/SoC products
Experience with industry available emulation or prototyping platforms like ZeBu/Palladium/Veloce/HAPS/Protium
Proven track record where products have gone to volume production preferably 1st pass Silicon
Experience in UVM Verilog System Verilog C and scripting

Masters or Ph.D degree in Electrical / Communications Engineering
10 years in design verification of ASIC/SoC products
Expertise with industry available emulation or prototyping platforms like ZeBu/Palladium/Veloce/HAPS/Protium
Experience with UVM Acceleration
Experience with post-silicon bring up
Strong written and verbal skills

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