Senior Silicon Emulation Engineer

Location: Austin, TX; hybrid workplace

Salary: $120,000–$225,000 annually

Company

hirify.global develops analog AI computing technology for edge devices, cloud, and data center environments, serving industrial, automotive, aerospace, and defense applications.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain emulation platforms for AI accelerators and AI-centric SoCs.
• Integrate large-scale RTL, including compute, DMA, memory subsystems, and interconnects, into emulation environments.
• Enable early firmware, driver, runtime, and ML stack bring-up on emulated hardware.
• Run AI inference workloads such as CNNs and transformers, and debug HW/SW co-design issues with compiler, runtime, and ML teams.
• Build automation for emulation builds, regressions, and workload execution.
• Analyze performance, bandwidth utilization, latency, and throughput, and support post-silicon correlation and validation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of SoC architectures and AI accelerator design concepts.
• Experience with RTL simulation and emulation using Verilog or SystemVerilog.
• Familiarity with hardware emulation platforms such as Cadence Palladium.
• Experience in Linux-based environments and proficiency with Python, Tcl, and Bash scripting.
• Strong debugging skills across hardware and software layers.

Nice to have

• Experience with NPU, DSP, or GPU-class accelerators and ML inference workloads on pre-silicon platforms.
• Knowledge of AI software stacks, including runtimes, compilers, and graph execution.
• Familiarity with DMA engines, memory hierarchies, high-bandwidth interconnects, AXI/AMBA protocols, and cache coherency.
• Experience with FPGA prototyping, hybrid emulation flows, performance modeling, or architectural trade-off analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative and respectful work environment.
• Supportive team culture with tools and resources for delivering complex engineering work.
• Values include professionalism, creativity, integrity, and inclusion.
• Full-time position with compensation determined by experience, skills, qualifications, and location.