Senior Emulation Engineer
GW198
Posted: 05/01/2026
- $250,000-$300,000
- Mountain View, CA
- Permanent
About the job
Senior Emulation Engineer – AI Hardware - Hybrid | Mountain View, CA
Acceler8 Talent is looking for an experienced Emulation Engineer to join a well-funded startup based out of Mountain View whose hardware promises to drastically change the economics of AI compute for the latest and most demanding models.
Founded by engineers who have been instrumental in the industry’s most successful semiconductor and AI products, this company is pushing the boundaries of what large-scale AI systems can achieve. With a team comprised of industry veterans, technical depth and execution excellence are central to its culture.
As a Senior Emulation Engineer, you’ll own pre-silicon emulation and validation at the subsystem and full-chip level, enabling early software bring-up, performance analysis, and silicon risk reduction. You will work closely with design, verification, architecture, and software teams to drive execution toward key silicon milestones.
This role might be ideal for you if you have:
- Experience driving emulation and pre-silicon validation from concept to working silicon
- 8+ years of experience in emulation, pre-silicon validation, or closely related design verification roles
- Strong SystemVerilog expertise, including testbench development and debug in emulation environments
- Hands-on experience with emulation platforms (e.g. Palladium, Veloce, ZeBu, Protium, or similar)
- Experience using Python, C/C++, Bluespec, or similar languages for test development, modeling, and automation
- Solid understanding of silicon micro-architecture, including high-performance compute, interconnects, memory systems, and data movement
- Experience enabling early firmware, driver, and system software bring-up on emulated hardware
Familiarity with hybrid verification flows (UVM + emulation), performance modeling, and participation in post-silicon bring-up and debug are strong pluses.
If you're interested in building the future of AI compute, apply here or reach out to me at ltomaszko@acceler8talent.com to discuss further.
Luke Tomaszko
Senior Semiconductor & Chip Design Recruiter