Emulation and FPGA Prototyping Engineer

Location: Palo Alto Office, USA

Company

hirify.global is developing world models and agents for learning, evaluating, planning, experimenting, and interacting with the physical world, with an initial focus on hardware, electronics systems, and semiconductors.

What you will do

• Build and maintain emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms for SoCs and subsystems.
• Map designs onto emulators and FPGAs, including partitioning and timing closure.
• Enable early software bring-up, system validation, and performance analysis.
• Debug complex hardware/software issues at system scale.
• Build automation for emulation compilation, execution, and triage.
• Generate system-level data to train and evaluate hirify.global’s models.

Requirements

• 5+ years of emulation or FPGA prototyping experience.
• Hands-on experience with Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce, or HAPS.
• Strong experience with SystemVerilog and FPGA tooling, including Vivado or Quartus.
• Experience with hardware/software co-verification and debugging.
• Scripting experience with Python, Tcl, or C/C++.

Nice to have

• Experience with transactors and hybrid emulation.
• Linux driver or firmware bring-up experience.
• Interest in AI-assisted design tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role within the Chips & Silicon department.
• Work with semiconductor programs and real silicon development.
• Collaborate with a team including former Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, semiconductor executives, and hardware verification experts.