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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Emulation Engineer - Hardware Prototyping - **Company:** Etched, LLC - **Location:** San Jose, United States - **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $275,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Bash Shell, C++ (Programming Language), Software Debugging, Linux, Ethernet, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Job Scheduling, Joint Test Action (IEEE Standards), Python (Programming Language), PCI Express, Systems Development Life Cycle, SystemVerilog, Tcl (Programming Language), Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, Verilog, Vivado, Scripting, Slurm - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/emulation-engineer-hardware-prototyping-haps-etched-8029378 ## About the Role * Hands-on FPGA prototyping experience - HAPS, Protium, proFPGA, S2C, or similar - covering partitioning, synthesis, timing closure, bring-up, and debug. * Strong SystemVerilog and Verilog, with a working understanding of what synthesizes well for FPGA and what doesn't. * Solid C/C++ and Linux system development. * Scripting fluency for automation - Python, TCL, shell. * Comfort debugging failures you didn't cause, in code you didn't write, for users who need an answer today. Strong candidates may also have * Experience with ProtoCompiler, Vivado, or Synopsys prototyping flows. * Firmware, driver, or bootloader bring-up experience on pre-silicon platforms. * Experience with emulation platforms (ZeBu, Palladium, Veloce) alongside prototyping - we run both, and the collateral is shared. * UVM verification environments, DFT, and testbench modeling. * Waveform debug tooling: Verdi, SimVision. * Cluster and job scheduling experience (SLURM), CI systems. ## Description * Support your users. Firmware, driver, and software engineers are your customers. You'll help them get running, triage their failures, and figure out whether the bug is theirs, the RTL's, or the platform's. * Debug hard problems. Trace issues across FPGA boundaries with waveform capture, protocol analyzers, and whatever tooling you have to build yourself. * Bring up interfaces. PCIe, Ethernet, HBM and memory models, JTAG, I2C, UART, QSPI - both the models and the physical bridges. * Build the flows. Automate builds, regressions, and image delivery so the platform scales past the number of people who understand it. * Work across the org. Design, DV, Silicon Validation, Performance, Firmware, and Software - plus direct partnership with Synopsys on tool issues and platform capability. Representative projects * Bring up a new subsystem partition on HAPS and get firmware booting on it end to end. * Build a self-service flow that lets software users load and run their own images without prototyping support in the loop. * Instrument deep trace capture across partition boundaries and build the tooling that surfaces it usefully. * Create configurable chip-to-chip and off-chip interface models using prototyping-efficient primitives. * Close timing on a partition that doesn't want to close, and document how you did it so the next person doesn't have to rediscover it. ## Related Videos - [Running Secure Life Science Research at Scale using Hybrid GPU HPC and Kubernetes 🧬](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100355-running-secure-life-science-research-at-scale-using-hybrid-gpu-hpc-and-kubernetes) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [More efficient software for more efficient microchips](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1164-more-efficient-software-for-more-efficient-microchips) - [Strange New Worlds: shaping the future of the digital age](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/677-strange-new-worlds-shaping-the-future-of-the-digital-age) - [Docker exec without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1094-docker-exec-without-docker) - [Discover the open source trio you didn’t expect: .NET and PostgreSQL on Linux](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2042-discover-the-open-source-trio-you-didn-t-expect-net-and-postgresql-on-linux) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Résumé-Driven Development: How IT trends affect the job market for software developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/59-resume-driven-development-how-it-trends-affect-the-job-market-for-software-developers) - [Top 6 Hackathons for Developers in 2023](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/263-top-6-hackathons-for-developers-in-2023) - [Should senior developers refuse interview coding challenges?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/29-should-senior-developers-refuse-interview-coding-challenges) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers)