System Modeling Engineer - CA, Santa Clara, United States
Originally posted 9 September 2026 by the employer.
Join AMD's Pensando team.
About the role
As a System Modeling Engineer, you will work on advanced ASIC and SoC platforms that power high-performance computing and data center solutions. This role is at the intersection of hardware and software, influencing product development early in the design cycle.
What you'll do
- Develop and integrate high-level, transaction-level, and cycle-accurate models for complex ASIC and SoC platforms.
- Create models that support architecture exploration, ASIC verification, and software development acceleration.
- Collaborate with architecture, design, verification, and software engineering teams to develop reusable validation environments.
- Analyze system behavior, functionality, and performance to identify optimization opportunities.
- Investigate and debug architectural, functional, and performance-related issues across hardware and software stacks.
- Contribute to system-level modeling initiatives using SystemC and related simulation frameworks.
What you'll need
- Strong programming experience in C++.
- Experience with SystemC modeling and simulation environments.
- Experience developing models for ASIC verification, architecture exploration, or software development acceleration.
- Experience working with ASIC design, architecture, and verification teams.
- Strong debugging and analytical skills with the ability to identify architecture, functionality, and performance issues.
- Experience developing transaction-level, functional, or cycle-accurate models.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with complex SoC architectures and system-level modeling methodologies.
- Experience developing automation and scripting solutions using Python or similar languages.
- Exposure to ARM Fast Models, ISA modeling, virtual platform development, or OMNeT.
- Experience with networking, data center infrastructure, CPU architecture, or high-performance computing technologies.
Skills: System Modeling, ASIC and SoC platforms, architecture exploration, SystemC, transaction-level modeling
This role has been open 35 days — well below the 79-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
470
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Median days open
79 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (470 roles · 65 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 35 | 470 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 255 | 3191 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 64 d | 79 d (−15 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: System Modeling, ASIC and SoC platforms, architecture exploration, SystemC, transaction-level modeling
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 72 open roles · median 86 d
- NVIDIA · 56 open roles · median 68 d
- Apple · 39 open roles · median 9 d
- AMD (this employer) · 35 open roles · median 64 d
- Arm Holdings · 27 open roles · median 112 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 21 open roles · median 114 d
How we counted: 470 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 65 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.