What are the responsibilities and job description for the Emulation Engineer (GK-64000830) position at Cirrus Logic?
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We are seeking a highly skilled engineer to design and build FGPA rapid prototyping platform to accelerate early firmware development for mixed-signal SoCs. This role sits at the intersection of firmware, digital design, analog modeling, and processor architecture, and requires close collaboration with hardware and software teams. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with emulation platforms (e.g., Cadence Protium or equivalent), FW bring-up, and performance-driven system optimization.
Responsibilities:
Export control restrictions based upon applicable laws and regulations would prohibit candidates who are nationals of certain embargoed countries from working in this position without Cirrus Logic first obtaining an export license. Candidates for this role must be able to access technical data without a requirement for an export license. We are unable to sponsor or obtain export licenses for this role.
Cirrus Logic strives to select the best qualified applicant for any opening. Different approaches, ideas and points of view are both valued and respected. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
We are seeking a highly skilled engineer to design and build FGPA rapid prototyping platform to accelerate early firmware development for mixed-signal SoCs. This role sits at the intersection of firmware, digital design, analog modeling, and processor architecture, and requires close collaboration with hardware and software teams. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with emulation platforms (e.g., Cadence Protium or equivalent), FW bring-up, and performance-driven system optimization.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and develop a Rapid Prototype Platform (similar to Cadence Protium) to enable early firmware development.
- Synthesize digital DUTs for emulation and prototyping environments.
- Design and implement SystemVerilog synthesizable transactors with C-DPI interface to enable C/C based tests.
- Validate and test the prototyping platform, ensuring functional correctness and robustness.
- Optimize platform performance, capacity, and scalability for firmware development and debug.
- Develop synthesizable analog and mixed-signal models suitable for emulation environments.
- Perform bare-metal firmware bring-up, including early boot, drivers, and system initialization.
- Debug firmware issues across emulation, prototyping, and early silicon environments.
- Collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, and software teams to benchmark, specify, develop, and deploy processors for mixed-signal chips.
- Define processor performance metrics and contribute to architectural trade-off studies.
- Support deployment and validation of processors in mixed-signal SoC products.
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
- Strong experience with emulation and rapid prototyping platforms (Cadence Protium or similar).
- Solid understanding of digital design synthesis and SoC integration.
- Experience developing synthesizable SystemVerilog transactors and HW/SW co-simulation environments.
- Hands-on experience with bare-metal firmware development and debug.
- Proficiency in C/C and familiarity with low-level system software.
- Experience working across analog, digital, and mixed-signal domains.
- Strong debugging skills across firmware, hardware, and system-level interactions.
- Experience developing synthesizable analog models for emulation.
- Familiarity with processor architectures used in mixed-signal SoCs.
- Experience with performance benchmarking and optimization of embedded processors.
- Experience with SoC level design verification.
Export control restrictions based upon applicable laws and regulations would prohibit candidates who are nationals of certain embargoed countries from working in this position without Cirrus Logic first obtaining an export license. Candidates for this role must be able to access technical data without a requirement for an export license. We are unable to sponsor or obtain export licenses for this role.
Cirrus Logic strives to select the best qualified applicant for any opening. Different approaches, ideas and points of view are both valued and respected. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable law.