Emulation Engineer
AMD · Bengaluru · 8–15 yrs experience · Posted 2026-06-10
Tech stack: C, C++, Go, MySQL, Python
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About the role
The person will be part of AMD's CPU Silicon Emulation team. This team is part of AMD's global CPU Emulation teams and plays a critical role in next generation AMD CPU design. Involves having deep understanding of existing AMD X86 CPU architecture and microarchitecture ranging from CPU pipeline stages to various complex features and structures, debugging emulation issues of RTL, giving feedback to design team for latest gen CPU in pre-silicon and emulation environment.
We highly encourage people with a creative bent of mind and with a natural ability to dive into the details. This team is a perfect place for people who can understand the present and envision the future. If you find yourself to be a person who wants to go that extra mile to refine an existing process and also understands the opportunities to make it better, if you are the one who has innovative ideas in your brain waiting to find a proper stage to come out, we can offer you the perfect ground for that.
Should have excellent inter-personal, communication skills and ability to work in a fast-paced exciting environment. Continuous learning has always been the moto in this ever changing industry. An ideal person for this role should be a self-learner and always ready to upgrade his/her skills to stay abreast with the technology. The team looks for superstars but also believes in nurturing you into one. Collaboration is the key to success. Ideal candidate should learn at a great pace, deliver what is expected and also share your learning in the team to help the overall growth. It’s always We before Me in the team
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Responsibilities:
- Experience working in emulation and silicon environments. Candidates are expected to have experience in:
- Emulation environments for pre-silicon prototyping
- Debugging low level software and hardware issues
- Debug tools including JTAG and kernel debuggers
- CPU and SoC architectures
- Basic understanding of power and performance
- Experience programming in C
- Experience with pre-silicon enablement and bring-up
- Expertise in Verilog / SystemVerilog
- Validation and debug of digital circuits
- Scripting: Proficient in Python, TCL
- FPGA Expertise: Cadence/Xilinx/Intel FPGAs, Tools, and timing closure techniques
Qualifications:
- Experience: 8-15 years' experience in processor/ASIC design verification.
- Experience in micro-architecture testing for modern high-performance processors.
- MYSQL (or any Database) and API knowledge knowledge will be a plus.
- Experience in application performance analysis Programming/Scripting Skills C, C++, Perl, Python.
- Solid background and understanding of Digital Design, RTL design, improving model performance and Processor Architecture Strong troubleshooting, analytical and debug skills.
- Prior experience in emulation infrastructure and debug of Processor subsystems is a plus.
- Excellent knowledge of computer architecture with relevant research and project work or industry experience
- Strong programming skills (C/C++ and assembly)
- Basic knowledge of Verilog
- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science/Electrical/Electronics Engineering with relevant course and research work
Qualifications
- Experience: 8-15 years' experience in processor/ASIC design verification.
- Experience in micro-architecture testing for modern high-performance processors.
- MYSQL (or any Database) and API knowledge knowledge will be a plus.
- Experience in application performance analysis Programming/Scripting Skills C, C++, Perl, Python.
- Solid background and understanding of Digital Design, RTL design, improving model performance and Processor Architecture
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical and debug skills.
- Prior experience in emulation infrastructure and debug of Processor subsystems is a plus.
- Excellent knowledge of computer architecture with relevant research and project work or industry experience
- Strong programming skills (C/C++ and assembly)
- Basic knowledge of Verilog
- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science/Electrical/Electronics Engineering with relevant course and research work
Responsibilities
- Experience working in emulation and silicon environments.
- Candidates are expected to have experience in:
- Emulation environments for pre-silicon prototyping
- Debugging low level software and hardware issues
- Debug tools including JTAG and kernel debuggers
- CPU and SoC architectures
- Basic understanding of power and performance
- Experience programming in C
- Experience with pre-silicon enablement and bring-up
- Expertise in Verilog / SystemVerilog
- Validation and debug of digital circuits
- Scripting: Proficient in Python, TCL
- FPGA Expertise: Cadence/Xilinx/Intel FPGAs, Tools, and timing closure techniques