Sr. 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 Computer Science Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
- 10 years of experience in SOC emulation and validation
- Strong expertise with industry-standard emulation platforms (e.g. Synopsys Zebu Cadence Palladium Mentor Veloce)
- Demonstrated experience in: Emulation bring-up and debug Emulation environment setup and maintenance Performance optimization
- Proficiency in Hardware Description Languages (Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL)
- Experience with programming languages( C/C) and scripting skills in Python Tcl and/or Perl
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills

- Masters degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
- Knowledge of ARM-based SOC architectures
- Experience debugging system-level issues
- Working experience with high performance industry standard buses like AMBA AXI4
- Experience with transaction level modeling and transactor development
- Experience with industry standard I/O interfaces
- Experience with Embedded firmware/software
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for hardware verification
- Experience with UVM verification methodology

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Sunnyvale - 183000.00 - 247600.00 USD annually