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# Emulation & FPGA Prototyping Engineer

- **Company:** Voltai Inc.
- **Location:** Palo Alto, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Build Automation, Software Debugging, Linux, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, System Testing, SystemVerilog, Tcl (Programming Language), Vivado, Scripting
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/emulation-fpga-prototyping-engineer-voltai-10517869

## About the Role

* 5+ years of emulation or FPGA prototyping experience.
 * Hands-on experience with Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce, or HAPS.
 * Strong SystemVerilog and FPGA tooling (Vivado, Quartus) experience.
 * Experience with hardware/software co-verification and debug.
 * Python, Tcl, or C/C++ scripting.

Bonus Points

 * Experience with transactors and hybrid emulation.
 * Linux driver or firmware bring-up experience.
 * Interest in AI-assisted design tools.

## Description

* Build and maintain emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms for SoCs and subsystems.
 * Map designs onto emulators and FPGAs, including partitioning and timing closure.
 * Enable early software bring-up, system validation, and performance analysis.
 * Debug complex hardware/software issues at system scale.
 * Build automation for emulation compile, run, and triage.
 * Generate system-level data that helps train and evaluate Voltai's models.