Senior Staff Engineer - Emulation

Job Title

Senior Staff Engineer - Emulation

Role Summary

Lead emulation strategy and delivery for large SoC products within the Custom Compute and Storage (CCS) business unit. The role owns emulation platform enablement, testplan development, and verification execution to accelerate RTL validation, software readiness, and post-silicon bring-up.

Experience Level

Senior level. The posting requests 8+ years of related professional experience.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include defining emulation capabilities, coordinating vendors and stakeholders, and improving emulation efficiency and usability.

• Define emulation strategy, platform requirements, and develop emulation test plans for large SoC products.
• Drive execution of emulation verification on platforms such as Veloce, Zebu and Palladium.
• Specify emulation hardware requirements including platforms, hardware/software collaterals, transactors and speed-bridges.
• Collaborate with vendor application engineers to enable platforms, debug issues, and maintain the HW/SW ecosystem.
• Develop HW/SW capabilities and tools to accelerate RTL and improve emulation/FPGA model usability for pre- and post-silicon validation and software development.
• Advise pre-silicon validation teams to optimize environments, test suites and methodologies for emulation efficiency.
• Create automation, flows and scripts to improve emulation ease-of-use and equipment utilization.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience.

• 8+ years of related professional experience in emulation, verification or SoC validation.
• Proven track record of managing technical teams and leading cross-functional efforts for design emulation and verification.
• Substantial experience with commercial emulation platforms and building complex SoC emulation models (vendors such as Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens).
• Working knowledge of processor architecture, SoC components, interconnect buses and IO protocols (PCIe, CXL, Ethernet) and memory interfaces (DDR, HBM).
• Strong understanding of large SoC product development lifecycle and verification/debug on emulation platforms.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation: Python, Perl, Tcl, UNIX shell scripting.
• Effective collaboration skills to work with internal teams and external vendor application engineers.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.

About the Company

Company: Marvell Technology

Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, United States

Marvell’s semiconductor solutions serve as essential building blocks of the data infrastructure connecting our world, driving innovation across enterprise, cloud, AI, and carrier architectures. The company focuses on creating transformative technology that shapes the future.