Senior Principal Hardware Emulation Engineer
SambaNova · San Jose, California, United States · San Jose, CA
CHECKED 11H AGO
Infrastructureonsiteprincipal$210k–$280k
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