Senior Design Lead

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Emulation Engineer with 7 -10 years of experience in ASIC/SoC verification and emulation. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in building, deploying, and debugging complex designs on hardware emulation platforms and accelerating pre-silicon verification for large-scale SoCs. Experience with advanced AI, Datacenter, Networking, Automotive, or HPC SoCs is highly desirable. Key Responsibilities Key Responsibilities Develop, maintain, and optimize emulation environments for complex ASIC/SoC programs. Perform design bring-up, partitioning, compilation, and debug on emulation platforms. Collaborate with Design, Verification, Firmware, and Validation teams for pre-silicon verification activities. Debug emulation failures and analyze issues across RTL, testbench, and software stacks. Enable and execute SoC-level use cases, firmware boot, software regression, and system validation in emulation. Drive performance optimization of emulation runs, regression infrastructure, and debug workflows. Support verification acceleration, HW/SW co-verification, and early software development. Develop automation scripts and flows to improve emulation productivity and scalability. Skill Requirements Required Skills Strong understanding of ASIC/SoC architecture and verification lifecycle. Hands-on experience with industry-standard emulation platforms such as: Cadence Palladium Synopsys ZeBu Siemens Veloce Good knowledge of Verilog/SystemVerilog and simulation-based verification methodologies. Experience with design partitioning, clocking strategies, probes, triggers, and emulation debug. Strong debugging skills across RTL, software, and system-level environments. Experience with Linux environments, scripting, and automation using Python, Perl, TCL, or Shell. Familiarity with HW/SW co-verification and firmware-driven validation. Other Requirements Hands-on emulation engineer with proven experience on Palladium, ZeBu, or Veloce , capable of handling large-scale SoCs and enabling early software execution, system validation, and verification acceleration for next-generation AI, Datacenter, Networking, Automotive, or HPC products. Apply now Information at a Glance Why HCLTech? At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first. HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. 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