Emulation & FPGA Prototyping Engineer

Job Title

Emulation & FPGA Prototyping Engineer

Role Summary

Own emulation and FPGA prototyping efforts for SoCs and subsystems to validate designs before silicon. Work with semiconductor partners to enable early software bring-up, system validation, and to produce system-level data that supports Voltai's model training and evaluation.

Experience Level

Mid-level - typically 5+ years of relevant emulation or FPGA prototyping experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include:

• 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.
• Develop automation for emulation compile, run, and triage workflows.
• Generate system-level data to support model training and evaluation.

Requirements

Must-have:

• 5+ years of emulation or FPGA prototyping experience.
• Hands-on experience with Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce, or HAPS.
• Strong SystemVerilog knowledge and experience with FPGA toolchains (Vivado, Quartus).
• Experience with hardware/software co-verification and system-level debug.
• Scripting experience in Python, Tcl, or C/C++.

Nice-to-have:

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

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Voltai

Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA, United States

Voltai develops AI-driven world models and agents to design, evaluate, and optimize physical systems-focusing on hardware, electronics, and semiconductors to enable AI-led hardware co-design, performance modeling, and cross-domain optimization.