Senior ICE Emulation Design Engineer

Job Title

Senior ICE Emulation Design Engineer

Role Summary

Lead emulation and prototyping efforts for large SoC designs, focusing on RTL partitioning, IP integration, interface validation, and system bring-up. Work closely with RTL, DV, and software teams to deliver stable, high-performance emulation prototypes.

Experience Level

Senior — 7+ years of hands-on experience in prototyping, emulation, SoC design, and validation.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities include preparing designs for emulation, integrating IP, and diagnosing system issues:

• Partition and synthesize large SoC RTL designs for emulation platforms.
• Integrate internal and third-party IPs and resolve timing and connectivity issues for emulation compatibility.
• Set up and validate high-speed and low-speed hardware interfaces.
• Configure host servers and boot environments to interact with the emulated design.
• Integrate, develop, and debug transactors, bridges, and protocol adapters.
• Debug and root-cause embedded hardware, firmware, and test failures observed in emulation.
• Collaborate with RTL, DV, and software teams to resolve system-level bugs.
• Optimize emulation performance and turnaround time.

Requirements

Core technical qualifications and skills required for the role.

Must-have:

• 7+ years of practical experience in prototyping, emulation, SoC design, or validation.
• Proven experience integrating and debugging high-speed and low-speed interfaces.
• Experience with embedded software bring-up and bootloader/kernel interactions.
• Proficiency with scripting languages for automation (Python, Perl, TCL).
• Experience in design verification and hardware/software co-simulation.
• Familiarity with Linux device drivers, bare-metal firmware, or boot loaders.
• Strong problem-solving skills and clear communication.

Nice-to-have:

• Hands-on experience synthesizing RTL for emulation or FPGA prototyping.
• Experience developing transactors, protocol adapters, or configuring emulation hosts.

Education Requirements

BS, MS, or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

About the Company

Company: Axiado

Headquarters: San Jose, CA, United States

Axiado is an AI-enhanced security processor company founded in 2017 that develops platform security management and ransomware-detection technologies for cloud datacenters and 5G infrastructure. The firm focuses on system control, management, and secure hardware/software integration to protect critical computing platforms.