EMULATION ENGINEER RESUME EXAMPLE

Published: Jan 13, 2025 - The Emulation Engineer is responsible for emulation and FPGA-based prototyping for Nuvia CPUs, developing emulatable test benches for high-speed CPU models. This role involves defining verification methodologies, implementing test plans, and ensuring failure reproducibility through hardware emulator development. Additionally, this position includes optimizing testbenches, automating regressions, and managing coverage collection on platforms like Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce, or Xilinx/Altera FPGA systems.

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1. Emulation Engineer, ApexTech Solutions, Austin, TX

Job Summary:

  • Work hands-on with RTL design, design verification, and software engineers to drive the development of prototyping/emulation models and workflows and debug system-level issues on industry-standard platforms.
  • Develop high-performance transactors and emulation models in SystemVerilog and C/C++
  • Develop and optimize build and runtime flows to enable quick turnaround of functional and performance issues
  • Drive improvements by harnessing the capabilities of the emulator technology and by identifying/fixing bottlenecks in the test bench collateral
  • Proactively monitor and resolve issues ensuring efficient utilization of the platform through automation and other innovations
  • Partner with vendors to debug and quickly resolve blocking issues, pioneer and deploy new capabilities
  • Maintaining hardware emulation system in full operational condition
  • Defining, documenting, developing and executing emulation processes for multiple projects
  • Integrating hardware emulation systems to different software platforms
  • Triaging Regressions, Debugging RTL designs in Verilog and SystemVerilog
  • Help improve and refine the emulation process, methodology, and metrics


Skills on Resume:

  • RTL Design and Verification (Hard Skills)
  • Emulation Models Development (Hard Skills)
  • Software Debugging (Hard Skills)
  • System Optimization (Hard Skills)
  • Automation Development (Hard Skills)
  • Vendor Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Hardware Maintenance (Hard Skills)
  • Process Improvement (Soft Skills)

2. CPU Emulation Engineer, ClearPath Systems, Boulder, CO

Job Summary:

  • Responsible for emulation and FPGA-based prototyping for Nuvia CPUs.
  • Develop emulatable test benches for several CPU models for high-speed and large test vectors.
  • Participate in defining the emulation and FPGA-based verification methodology for CPUs.
  • Implement test plans and ensure reproducibility of failures
  • Develop all aspects of hardware emulator implementation, with emphasis on design partitioning, synthesis, place and route, timing analysis
  • Optimize the testbenches to enable the most efficient use of emulation infrastructure.
  • Develop flows to enable the use of emulation for CPU verification, including a methodology to debug fails on emulation.
  • Automation of regressions and coverage collection on emulation and FPGA platforms
  • Hardware emulators, such as Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce, or FPGA systems based on Xilinx or Altera FPGAs
  • Emulation methodologies, including in-circuit emulation, hybrid systems, or simulation acceleration


Skills on Resume:

  • FPGA Prototyping (Hard Skills)
  • Test Bench (Hard Skills)
  • Verification Methodology (Hard Skills)
  • Plan Implementation (Hard Skills)
  • Emulator Implementation (Hard Skills)
  • Bench Optimization (Hard Skills)
  • Regression Automation (Hard Skills)
  • Emulation Methodologies (Hard Skills)

3. Emulation Engineer, VisionLogic Inc., Raleigh, NC

Job Summary:

  • Architect, plan, implement, and bring up subsystem/system Test Bench builds on emulation.
  • Collaboration with Design, DV, System, and Software teams.
  • Creating test schemes and test plans. 
  • Running tests on the appropriate emulation build, debugging issues, and reporting status.
  • Collaborating with system teams to develop and implement support plans. 
  • Leveraging emulation capabilities to accelerate silicon bring-up.
  • Exploring and developing new technologies and methodologies to leverage emulation and hardware acceleration for new applications.
  • Resolving emulation issues via vendor interactions
  • Participate in silicon bring-up and post-silicon validation of new silicon to drive product to mass production
  • Perform bring-up, timing characterization and validation on SoC/GPU processors on DRAM (LPDDR/GDDR), MIPI DPHY and other high-speed interfaces.
  • Perform margin/tolerance/variation determination/characterization.
  • Work with and support engineers for silicon data collection.
  • Set up and maintain PCs, platforms, lab equipment and infrastructure for testing and validating SoC and GPU platforms.
  • Resolving silicon and board issues related to logic design & signal integrity with other senior engineers


Skills on Resume:

  • System Architecture (Hard Skills)
  • Cross-Functional (Soft Skills)
  • Scheme Creation (Hard Skills)
  • Test Debugging (Hard Skills)
  • Hardware Acceleration (Hard Skills)
  • Silicon Validation (Hard Skills)
  • Timing Characterization (Hard Skills)
  • Issue Resolution (Hard Skills)