Emulation Engineer

Company Description

Axiado is building the future of AI powered digital infrastructure. We are a fast-growing, well funded silicon, systems, and solutions company pioneering a new category of semiconductor called the Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) that combines advanced hardware security, AI driven resilience and efficiency, and real-time platform management.

Job Description

The Senior Emulation Engineer position is your opportunity to join one of the industry's leading companies in platform security management and ransomware detection for cloud datacenters, 5G infrastructure and disaggregated compute ecosystems. We are looking for an emulation engineer to run and debug system-level workloads on Synopsys ZeBu emulation platforms and to own the integration and bring-up of transactors (XTORs) that connect the emulated SoC to real and virtual interfaces.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute and debug system-level tests, firmware, and software workloads on ZeBu emulation models
• Bring up and validate secure boot flows (ROM, bootloader, Linux/RTOS) and platform security features such as root of trust, attestation, and firmware update on the emulated SoC
• Develop and run use-case scenarios covering platform security management, ransomware detection workloads, and datacenter/5G traffic patterns
• Triage failures and isolate root cause across RTL, firmware, driver, testbench, XTOR, and emulation environment; produce clear, reproducible bug reports
• Use ZeBu runtime debug capabilities to debug efficiently at speed
• Run and manage long-running regressions and soak tests; track pass rates, failure trends, and run-to-run stability
• Perform power-aware and performance validation runs: activity capture, bandwidth/latency profiling, and use-case benchmarking

Qualifications

• BS or MS degrees or higher in EE, CE or related fields
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in prototyping, emulation, SOC design and validation
• Self-driven, good problem solving and communication skills
• Hands-on experience running and debugging designs on Synopsys ZeBu (or comparable emulators such as Palladium or Veloce), including runtime control (NGTB or C based), waveform capture, and checkpoint/restore
• Experience integrating and debugging high-speed and low-speed interfaces
• Familiarity with embedded software bring-up and bootloader/kernel interactions
• Proficiency with scripting languages (Python, Perl, TCL) for automation

Additional Information

Axiado is an Equal Opportunity Employer.