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Senior Principal Hardware Emulation Engineer

SambaNova · San Jose, California, United States · San Jose, CA

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Infrastructureonsiteprincipal$210k–$280k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build and own pre-silicon emulation for next-gen RDU AI chips.
  • Enable software bring-up months before silicon arrives.
  • Provide the platform relied on by three engineering organizations.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • 95% employee medical premium coverage
  • 77% dependent medical premium coverage
  • HSA with employer contribution
  • Dental, vision and disability insurance
  • Headspace, Gympass+ and One Medical membership

Ideal candidate

Senior hands-on emulation owner who thrives at the hardware-software boundary and enjoys multiplying velocity for design, verification and software teams through fast, trusted platforms.

Requirements

  • Develop emulation models including transactors, behavioral and memory models in SystemVerilog and C/C++
  • Partner with RTL design team to keep design emulation-compliant
  • Experience with virtual or hybrid platforms combining emulation with instruction-accurate models
  • Experience with FPGA prototyping platforms and design partitioning
  • Experience with post-silicon debug reproducing lab failures on pre-silicon platform
  • Compiler or runtime software background or experience embedded on a software team
  • Fluency with Claude or other AI tools for flow development and automation

Lab profile

About SambaNova

Full-stack AI infrastructure with RDU dataflow chips for fast agentic inference.

What they build

  • RDU Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
  • SambaRack rack-scale hardware
  • Full-stack AI inference platform

Known for

  • Reconfigurable dataflow architecture alternative to GPUs
  • High decode performance for agentic workloads
  • Full-stack hardware-software co-design

Key facts

  • Founded in 2017
  • Headquartered in Palo Alto, California
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