SOC Emulation Engineer, Silicon and Systems Group

The Amazon Devices team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced ground-breaking devices like Fire tablets Fire TV and Amazon Echo and the Astro personal robot. What will you help us create As an Emulation Engineer you will be part of an advanced architecture team that is exploring new hardware designs to improve our this role you will be responsible for defining the emulation bring up environment for ASIC and system level emulation. You will participate in the design verification and bring-up of IPs in Emulation by writing relevant scripts debugging code test benches test harnesses and otherwise interacting with the extended team. You will responsible for the bring-up of these blocks. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary groups including Product Design Audio Technology Computer Vision Hardware Engineering and Software Engineering to build and validate emulation solutions that enable development of world-class hardware devices.

Key job responsibilities
Build and bring-up emulation models for complex SOC designs
Develop and maintain emulation environments and methodologies
Debug complex hardware issues using emulation platforms
Develop and maintain C based emulation testbench framework
Create and execute verification test plans
Interface with cross-functional teams including RTL verification and silicon validation engineers to validate designs on emulation platforms
Enable and partner with software team on software bring-up and root-cause bugs
Optimize emulation performance and resource utilization
Document processes methodologies and technical specifications


- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
- 7 years of emulation experience
- Experience in more than one major programming language (C Java or related) and at least one scripting language (Perl Python or equivalent)
- Experience identifying bugs in architecture algorithms functionality and performance with strong overall debugging skills
- Strong expertise with industry-standard emulation platforms (e.g. Synopsys Zebu Cadence Palladium Mentor Veloce)
- Demonstrated experience in: o Emulation bring-up and debug o Emulation environment setup and maintenance o Performance optimization
- Proficiency in Hardware Description Languages (Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL)

- Masters degree in Electrical or Communications Engineering or a related field
- Experience working with high-performance industry standard buses like AMBA AXI4
- Experience with Industrial control systems both hardware and software
- 4 years of embedded firmware development experience
- Experience using multiple verification platforms: UVM test bench FPGA emulator software environments and system testing
- Knowledge of ARM-based SOC architectures Experience debugging system-level issues
- Experience with transaction level modeling
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for hardware verification

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