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 devices. In 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

Bachelor’s 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s 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

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 183,000.00 - 247,600.00 USD annually