ZeBu Emulation

Syntronic – ZeBu Emulation /San Jose, CA

A ZeBu Emulation Engineer is a specialized hardware verification role focused on building and debugging emulation environments for SoCs, ensuring that pre-silicon validation and software bring-up are efficient, reliable, and ready for production silicon.

What we’re looking for:

• Highly motivated professionals

• Motivated Hardware Designer

• Professionals with ability to work both with in-house projects and on-site assignments at our customers’ locations

What you’ll do

· Engineers work closely with design, verification, and software teams to ensure the emulation environment is stable, efficient, and ready for silicon.

· ZeBu emulation is critical for pre-silicon software bring-up, hardware-software co-verification, and performance validation before tapeout

Responsibilities

We are looking for an Emulation Engineer to support silicon development and verification activities for Customer Reality Labs.

Key Responsibilities

· Develop, bring up, and maintain SoC/subsystem environments on Synopsys ZeBu emulation platforms.

· Enable and support downstream functional/verification teams to execute workloads, test scenarios, and debug issues on the emulation platform.

· Debug hardware, firmware, and system-level issues identified during emulation and collaborate with RTL, DV, firmware, and architecture teams.

· Support model compilation, build/debug flows, regression execution, waveform/debug analysis, and overall emulation infrastructure.

· Work cross-functionally to improve emulation stability, performance, and coverage ahead of silicon availability.

Preferred Skills

· Hands-on experience with Synopsys ZeBu or similar hardware emulation platforms. Strong understanding of RTL/SoC design and verification.

· Experience with SystemVerilog/Verilog, scripting (Python/Tcl/Shell), and debugging complex SoC environments.

· Experience supporting pre-silicon functional validation or software/firmware enablement is highly desirable.

· Knowledge of CPU architecture (e.g., x86)

· Experience with hybrid emulation and virtual platforms

Required Skills & Experience/Mandatory:

· VLSI hardware emulation (ZeBu or similar platforms)

· RTL/SoC design and verification experience

· System Verilog/Verilog, scripting (Python/Tcl/Shell

· Debugging complex SoC environments

What will make us REALLY love you

· A friendly willingness to collaborate, share knowledge, and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.

· A clear passion for project-based work, continuous learning, and staying at the top of your technical game.

What you’ll love about us

• Company Culture – outstanding people and a flexible work environment.

• Career Growth Opportunities – being a design house keeps variety in your work. New opportunities happening all the time!

• Global Design House – since Syntronic is a global Design House, you will probably work with in a team with engineers from other Syntronic sites (Canada, Sweden, China, Malaysia, Japan).

Who we are

Syntronic provides our customers a complete portfolio of professional services to support their product development including research & development, new product introduction, manufacturing and aftermarket services. We adopt the latest technologies in electronics design and software development with a pool of technically skilled staff around the world. Among our customers and partners are some of the world’s most technically-intensive businesses and organizations. This pushes us forward in designing to satisfy our customers’ needs with a focus on quality, competence, capacity and continuity.

Syntronic has today over 2000 employees in 8 countries.

Syntronic values diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you require accommodation due to a disability at any time during the recruitment and/or assessment process, please contact our recruiting team and we will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate your request.