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# ASIC Design Enablement and Automation Engineering

- **Company:** SanDisk
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Software Debugging, Linux, Emulators, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Joint Test Action (IEEE Standards), PCI Express, SAP Sales and Distribution, Tcl (Programming Language), Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, Application Specific Integrated Circuits
- **Published:** September 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/665ab5f5-cacc-4473-b566-8ff5acbf76b8/senior-staff-asic-platform-engineer

## About the Role

Required:

 * BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering field
 * 8+ years of experience in pre-silicon development, emulation, FPGA prototyping, ASIC validation, firmware development, or related platform engineering

Desired Skills:

 * Expertise with pre-silicon ASIC or FW development
 * Expertise with Cadence, Siemens and/or Synopsys emulation platforms or FPGA-based prototyping environments
 * Ability to debug complex system-level issues across hardware, software, and platform infrastructure
 * Familiarity with host interfaces such as PCIe, UFS, USB, and SD
 * Familiarity with peripheral interfaces such as UART, JTAG, I2C, HSSTP, and related protocols.
 * Experience working in Linux and Windows environments
 * Expertise in Tcl
 * Experience supporting pre-silicon development in cross-functional teams and optimizing hardware usage at scale
 * Understanding of firmware development process and how that intersects with ASIC development and FPGA design

## Description

The ASIC Design Enablement and Automation Engineering organization is seeking a self-driven, hands-on engineer to lead enablement, automation, and infrastructure development for large-scale pre-silicon emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms used in product development. This role supports the Emerging Technology Solutions group by enabling pre-silicon development through reliable farm infrastructure, automation, and cross-functional platform leadership for emerging technologies solutions group. The ideal candidate brings broad system-level knowledge, with depth in one or more areas such as emulation, FPGA prototyping, automation, firmware enablement, or platform debug., * Support Product Firmware, Firmware Validation, Security FW, and ASIC validation/verification throughout development cycle

 * Develop scripts, tools, and automation to improve platform deployment, debug, monitoring and user workflows
 * Debug complex platform issues across hardware, firmware, software, infrastructure and user environments
 * Understand user workflows and platform use cases and then scale solutions across farm-based deployments
 * Document, explain & share creative solutions to difficult technical problems


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