SOC Full Chip Emulation Engineer

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 debug

Why 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.