Emulation Engineer

About This Role

• As an Emulation Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Intel's silicon prototyping and validation efforts for groundbreaking IP, SoC, and chiplet designs.
• Your contributions will directly impact Intel's ability to deliver high-quality, innovative solutions to market faster by enabling efficient pre-silicon validation and system-level testing.
• Collaborating across design, silicon validation, and software teams, you will create, optimize, and deploy emulation and FPGA models that accelerate the development process, ensuring functionality and reliability before fabrication.
• This position provides an opportunity to innovate and influence methodologies, tools, and processes while tackling complex challenges in the cutting-edge field of semiconductor design.
• Key Responsibilities - Build emulation and FPGA models using synthesis, partitioning, and routing tools to translate RTL designs into working prototypes. - Develop, integrate, test, and debug hardware/software collateral to support emulation, including hybrid environments combining virtual platforms and FPGA/emulation models. - Define and deliver new capabilities and tools to improve emulation usability, efficiency, and validation coverage. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable pre-silicon verification and software development through optimized emulation platforms. - Debug RTL tests and troubleshoot emulator/FPGA environment issues to ensure usability and reliability. - Provide guidance to pre-silicon validation teams on optimizing test environments, test suites, and methodologies for emulation efficiency. - Focus on automation by developing scripts and flows to enhance emulation utilization and productivity. - Participate in IP and SoC bring-up and investigate issues impacting testbench and emulation environments for rapid resolution.