Systems Design Engineer - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 23 April 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 27 October 2026.
Focus on pre-silicon emulation debug, boot flows, and low-power states such as S0i3 for SOC designs.
About the role
This role focuses on pre-silicon emulation debug, development, and validation of complex boot flows, connections, and peripherals in SOC designs. You will validate silicon designs and implement shift-left initiatives across pre-silicon IP and system validation.
What you'll do
- Work with pre-silicon tools and concepts such as emulation, FPGA, software models, and N-1 silicon usage across pre-to-post-silicon initiatives. - Contribute to high-priority issue debug and execution on critical microprocessor product development projects. - Drive capabilities and technologies to enhance system validation quality and coverage prior to silicon arrival. - Lead defining shift left strategies for new products with customers and define key metrics to track improvements. - Coordinate with program-specific technical leads, including the product Lead System Engineer and product Silicon Evaluation Lead.
What you'll need
- Bachelor, Master's, or PhD degree in Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering, or a related degree. - Understanding of microprocessor product development and computer system architecture. - Experience with pre-silicon emulation tools, FPGA, or software models for hardware, firmware, and software validation. - Knowledge of Verilog, C, C++, assembly, TCL/TK, Python, or other scripting languages.
Nice to have
- 7+ years of semiconductor development with focused experience in emulation and shift left technologies and processes. - Hands-on experience validating low-power states such as S0i3 in pre-silicon emulation environments, including debug of entry/exit flows and dependencies across firmware and hardware components. - Demonstrated success in product verification, emulation, and post silicon validation.
Skills: system power modeling, software/hardware modeling frameworks, power management, board/platform-level debug, system architecture
This role has been open 187 days — well above the 119-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · Serdes Highspeed
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Open roles in category
92
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Median days open
119 d
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Median salary
$198k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (92 roles · 35 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 92 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 386 | 6292 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 134 d | 119 d (+15 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $198k |
Skills observed across this category: system power modeling, software/hardware modeling frameworks, power management, board/platform-level debug, system architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 13 open roles · median 71 d
- Qualcomm · 10 open roles · median 193 d
- AMD (this employer) · 5 open roles · median 134 d
- Astera Labs · 4 open roles · median 41 d
- Intel Corporation · 4 open roles · median 15 d
- Keysight Technologies · 4 open roles · median 155 d
How we counted: 92 open Hardware Systems Engineering (Serdes Highspeed) roles from 35 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 28 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 Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.