$80,000 - $200,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 29 April 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Senior FPGA/Emulation Validation Engineer works across design verification, debug, and system integration in platform security management and ransomware detection for cloud datacenters, 5G infrastructure, and disaggregated compute ecosystems.
What you'll do
- Help set up the FPGA/Emulation platform, device modeling, and FPGA/Emulation debugging tools.
- Help customize the SOC design for the FPGA/Emulation platform.
- Perform modeling, debugging, creating, and running validation tests, as well as supporting SW debugging.
- Collaborate with SOC design engineers, verification, systems, and software teams to achieve pre-silicon emulation and prototyping goals.
What you'll need
- 5 plus years of work experience with FPGA and Emulation platforms.
- BS or MS in EE/EECS/CS or equivalent.
- Strong experience working with FPGA tools like Vivado.
- Familiarity with PCIe, USB, Ethernet, SPI, and other commonly used protocols in SOC ASIC designs.
- Prior knowledge of SOC architecture, FW/SW interaction on SOC, and emulation and prototyping platforms.
More semiconductor jobs: RTL design jobs
First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 66-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
1086
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Median days since first seen
66 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$189k
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| Metric | Axiado | All employers we track in this specialty (1086 roles · 104 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 1086 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 18 | 3546 · 121 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 0 d | 66 d (+66 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $189k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 143 open roles · median 77 d
- AMD · 92 open roles · median 56 d
- Synopsys · 87 open roles · median 55 d
- NVIDIA · 49 open roles · median 68 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 46 open roles · median 107 d
- Analog Devices · 38 open roles · median 58 d
How we counted: 1086 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 104 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 12 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.