Pre-Silicon Validation/Verification Engineer

Job description

Job Description

We're looking for motivated, passionate and talented engineers to join our System Validation team as an Accelerators Emulation Engineer!

We need your skills and talent in system validation to apply smart debug techniques to characterize IP issues and test feature correctness as well as performance to specifications, both in the pre-silicon and post-silicon spaces. The Accelerators Emulation Engineer will support Emulation development and enabling of Intel's SOCs and chipsets and IPs. The position will involve simulation, implementation and debug of emulation models of these SOCs. You will be engaged with Design, architecture, FW/SW, driver development team and more to develop design models for validation and verification.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

- Define and develop new capabilities & HW/SW tools to enable acceleration of RTL and improve emulation/FPGA model usability for pre-Silicon and post-Silicon functional validation as well as SW development/validation.

- Create FPGA emulation models from RTL using FPGA synthesis, partitioning and routing tools.

- Define and document RTL changes required for emulation.

- Develop hardware collateral to be integrated with the FPGA emulation model.

- Test and debug the FPGA emulation model.

- Develop and maintain model build flows, debug capabilities.

- Support continuous integration of model builds.

- Support Software and Validation team with model use.

In this position you will gain invaluable experience which will allow growth and expanded opportunities within this business group as well as future possible opportunities with other business groups within Intel.

The Data Center Group (DCG) drives new products technologies from high-end co-processors for supercomputers to low-energy systems for enterprise and the cloud, as well as solutions for big data and intelligent devices. The group is a worldwide organization that develops the products and technologies that power nine of every 10 servers sold worldwide.

Inside this Business Group

TBD

Desired profile

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates
Minimum Required Qualifications:
Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or Communications and Electronic Engineering with 3 years of related work experience or a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or Communications and Electronic Engineering with 2 years of related work experience- 3 plus years of in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in FPGAs
- 3 plus years of Linux experience as an admin or end user- 2 plus years of experience with FPGA emulators- 2 plus years of experience with scripting languages such as TCL, Perl
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree or higher preferred- Comfortable in a lab environment and have strong debug skills- Knowledge of Wireless and Networking Protocols- Knowledge of PCIE- Knowledge of both Xilinx & Altera high end technologies- Proven capabilities in strong RTL coding (Verilog MUST. SV adv.)