SOC Full Chip Emulation Engineer
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Skills named in this posting
- Emulation
- Cache coherency
- PCIe
- AMBA / AXI
- Ethernet
Semidynamics is seeking a SOC Full Chip Emulation Engineer for our AI SOCs. You will develop emulation infrastructure and validate end-to-end scenarios including CPUs, high-speed interfaces and peripherals. We are looking for a hands-on individual contributor with a proven track record in emulation - including testbenches, transactors, emulation tests, system use cases - to ensure the highest quality before tapeout.
Key Responsibilities
SOC Full Chip Emulation Infrastructure
• Define and establish the emulation infrastructure.
• Develop and implement elastic testbenches for emulated design configurations.
• Transactors for high-speed interfaces and peripherals.
• Own and run CI, sanity, full regression cycles for emulation.SOC Full Chip Validation Using Emulation
• Integrate and deploy emulation test suites to ensure rigorous validation.
• Develop emulation tests to achieve 100% coverage of targeted system use cases.
• Validate performance KPIs through emulation.
• Cross Functional collaboration for early enablement of Firmware, Software teams.
Must-Have
• In-depth expertise with industry emulation platforms (Palladium, Zebu or Veloce) with experience in CPUs, Cache Coherency, PCIe, AXI, CHI, Ethernet, Memory protocols.
• Minimum 6+ years experience having signed-off on emulation for multiple projects.
• University degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.Highly Desirable
• Prior experience in Platform power on and Post silicon debugWhy Semidynamics?
• Work at one of Europe’s most promising deep-tech semiconductor start up - from silicon to systems - Semidynamics.
• Accelerated development path.
• 4 days per week in the Barcelona office (city center), 1 day WFH.
• 1 week of work from everywhere in the world.
• Competitive package.
• A collaborative, technical, and growth-oriented environment that values direct ownership and clear thinking.
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Original posting: careers.semidynamics.com
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Semidynamics Technology Services, S.L. in the RISC-V ecosystem
RISC-V International: Strategic
Semidynamics is a supplier of high bandwidth RISC-V IP cores. | Semidynamics is a fabless semiconductor company based in Barcelona, focused on advancing high-performance AI inference through next-generation processor technology.
- Semidynamics designs fully customisable RISC-V processor IP (64-bit cores with wide vector units) in Barcelona
- Launched Cervell, a scalable RISC-V NPU for AI workloads, positioning itself as "AI with RISC-V"
- Ships a RISC-V SDK with ONNX Runtime support so AI models run on its cores
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