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Emulation Performance Verification Engineer

THE ROLE

• As a Silicon Design Engineer, you will work with Performance Architects and designers to verify performance metric KPIs and meeting product performance targets on SOC Emulation.

THE PERSON

• You have a passion for modern, complex processor architecture, digital design, and performance verification in general. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and execute performance workloads on emulation platforms to validate architecture, analyze system performance, and identify bottlenecks across hardware, firmware, and software.
• Develops and utilizes automation aids, flows, and scripts in support of better emulation utilization.
• Design new infrastructure and debug features to improve coverage, visibility, and debuggability across diverse performance use cases.
• Reproduce and root‑cause performance issues in pre‑silicon environments based on post‑silicon observations, and drive fixes or model updates.
• Collaborate closely with design, architecture, performance/power, silicon validation, and software teams to validate complex architectural features and meet performance targets

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• 3-4 years of experience on emulation based functional and performance verification for multimillion gate SoC designs
• Should have strong exposure to RTL coding and SOC bring-up
• Good debugging skills, experience of working with various debugging tools on RTL like Verdi, fsdb analysis.
• Good knowledge in C/C++, scripting (Python/Perl/Tcl) and ability to develop post-processing tools for stimulus generation and debug infrastructure.
• Experience with hardware performance counter monitoring tools
• Exceptional foundation in systems architecture, cutting across multi-core systems, memory, storage and I/O subsystems

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering
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