Silicon Emulation Engineer

Waymo's Compute Team is tasked with a critical and exciting mission: We deliver the compute platform responsible for running the fully autonomous vehicle’s software stack. To achieve our mission, we architect and create high-performance custom silicon; we develop system-level compute architectures that push the boundaries of performance, power, and latency; and we collaborate closely with many other teammates to ensure we design and optimize hardware and software for maximum performance. We are a multidisciplinary team seeking curious and talented teammates to work on one of the world’s highest performance automotive compute platforms.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to a Silicon Engineering Lead.

You will:

• Collaborate with the Design, Verification, and Software teams to simulate future silicon designs and software on an emulation platform, targeting functional and performance validation and left-shift of software development
• Design, implement, and optimize emulation testbenches, balancing performance and debug capabilities based on user needs and hardware constraints
• Write end-to-end synthesizable transactors to interact with emulated designs through software APIs and C-DPI
• Triage and root-cause failures alongside emulation users, leveraging waveforms, software logging, and custom-built emulation monitors
• Assist with post-silicon bring-up, debug, and characterization
• Build infrastructure to support the emulation user base, including tools for model build, regression, automation, continuous integration, data analysis, and training

You have:

• BS degree in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering or related field and 5 years of silicon development experience.
• Experience with at least one major hardware emulation platform (Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, Protium, HAPS).
• High level of proficiency with one or more of the following emulation approaches: virtual prototyping, testbench acceleration, hybrid emulation, in-circuit emulation (speed bridge), QEMU, or VirtualBox
• Experience with SystemVerilog and design verification methodologies
• Programming and scripting (C++, Python, or TCL) for automation, test development, debug flows, and release process.
• Strong debug and problem-solving ability across hardware and software

We prefer:

• Experience with AXI/AMBA, PCIe, DRAM, and Ethernet interfaces
• Performance and power analysis techniques
• Experience with JTAG, DFT, UART, SPI, GPIO and other test/low-speed interfaces
• Knowledge of advanced design verification methods (coverage, gate-level simulation, assertions, and UVM).
• Post-silicon debug software (e.g. Trace32, OpenOCD, TARMAC) and lab bench tools (analyzers, scopes, meters)
• Understanding of bare metal programming, embedded systems, Linux internals, operating systems, boot loaders, drivers, and firmware