Senior Emulation / Pre-Silicon Validation Engineer (Cadence Palladium)

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Experience: 6+ yrs

Location: Bengaluru

Job Type: Full-time

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Emulation / Pre-Silicon Validation Engineer to support pre-silicon validation for complex ASIC and SoC designs using advanced hardware emulation platforms. This role is ideal for professionals with deep expertise in Cadence Palladium environments, hardware/software co-validation, and SoC debugging who are passionate about accelerating silicon validation and improving product quality before tape-out.

As a Senior Emulation / Pre-Silicon Validation Engineer, you will collaborate closely with RTL, Verification, Firmware, Architecture, and Software teams to build scalable emulation environments, enable efficient hardware/software integration, and validate complex SoC functionality. You will play a key role in optimizing emulation workflows, debugging functional issues, developing transactors, and ensuring robust pre-silicon validation across multiple subsystems.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize hardware emulation environments using Cadence Palladium platforms.
• Support Palladium build, compilation, partitioning, clocking, and debug flows for large-scale ASIC and SoC designs.
• Design and develop SystemC/C++ transactors, reference models, and validation infrastructure.
• Enable and support ICE (In-Circuit Emulation) and Virtual Interface (VIF)-based validation environments.
• Perform hardware/software co-validation by integrating firmware and software with emulated hardware platforms.
• Debug functional, integration, and performance issues across hardware and software components.
• Collaborate with RTL, Verification, Firmware, and Architecture teams to accelerate validation and issue resolution.
• Develop automation scripts using Python, TCL, Perl, or Shell to improve validation efficiency and regression execution.
• Analyze validation results, identify root causes, and recommend improvements to emulation methodologies and workflows.
• Contribute to continuous enhancement of pre-silicon validation processes, emulation infrastructure, and overall verification productivity.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 6+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC Emulation, Pre-Silicon Validation, or Hardware Validation.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Cadence Palladium platforms, including XP, Z1, Z2, or Z3.
• Experience with Palladium compilation, partitioning, advanced clocking, ICE, and Virtual Interface (VIF) workflows.
• Proficiency in SystemC, C/C++, and scripting languages such as Python, TCL, Perl, or Shell.
• Solid understanding of SoC architecture, hardware/software co-validation, and embedded system debugging.
• Experience validating high-speed interfaces such as AXI, PCIe, DDR, USB, SPI, or similar industry-standard protocols.
• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve complex integration issues.
• Familiarity with FPGA prototyping, UVM, Lauterbach, JTAG, CoreSight, ARM/x86 platforms, or networking ASICs is an added advantage.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills with experience working alongside design, firmware, and verification teams.
• A proactive mindset with a passion for improving validation methodologies, automation, and overall product quality.