FPGA Prototype/Emulation Engineer

FPGA Prototype/Emulation Lead – Platform Software & FPGA Team

Location: Pune / Bangalore – India

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About GlobalFoundries

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Introduction:

We are seeking highly skilled FPGA and emulation engineer/lead to join our team and help us build FPGA designs for our CPU’s (64-bit, and 32-bit), and SOCs. This is very important role given FPGA’s play key role in our validation as well in our shift left software development approach.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute across the full silicon-to-software lifecycle, combining software engineering with post-silicon validation to ensure high-quality, safety-critical SoC solutions.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, build and develop innovative FPGA and emulation platform solutions for both single and multi-core clusters, integrating additional custom and 3rd party system IP as needed.

• Perform pre-silicon CPU and system validation using FPGA and HW emulation platforms to ensure functional correctness and performance targets.

• Analyse system performance on FPGA platforms and optimize for area and speed, leveraging available FPGA resources effectively.

• Create tailored FPGA prototyping platforms based on customer specifications and evolving project requirements.

• Collaborate closely with customer teams to enable rapid prototyping of their SoCs, supporting both hardware evaluation and software development needs

• Develop, document, and execute comprehensive pre-silicon validation test plans, including corner cases and integration scenarios.

• Integrate, verify, and bring up daughter boards, custom IP, and peripheral modules in real-time device environments.

• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for FPGA systems in both customer-facing and internal R&D contexts.

Ideally, you’ll have:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience with leading FPGA Platforms like proFPGA, VPS, and Veloce.

• Solid understanding of FPGA architecture, system-level design, and prototyping flow from RTL to implementation.

• Good understanding of Verification and Validation fundamentals.

• Hands-on experience with integrating and bringing up daughter cards, custom IP blocks, and peripherals at the board/system level.

• Familiarity with SoC boot flows and platform initialization (for ARM or RISCV-based architectures).

• Working knowledge of MIPS, ARM, or RISC-V based IP subsystems and their integration within FPGA platforms.

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in both Windows and Linux environments.

• Proficient in scripting languages (such as Python, Bash, TCL) to automate design, build, and validation flows.

• Experience with industry-standard digital design tools (e.g., Vivado)

You might also have:

• Experience working on CPUs or other high complexity, pipelined digital logic products.

• Familiarity with different Instruction Set Architectures (e.g., RISC-V, ARM64, x86_64) and understanding of coherency protocols for multi-core clusters.

• Background in hardware-software co-design and early software bring-up.

• Experience working with CI/CD and agile tools (Jenkins, Git, Jira).

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a strong customer-oriented mindset.

GlobalFoundries is an equal opportunity employer, cultivating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We believe having a multicultural workplace enhances productivity, efficiency and innovation whilst our employees feel truly respected, valued and heard.

As an affirmative employer, all qualified applicants are considered for employment regardless of age, ethnicity, marital status, citizenship, race, religion, political affiliation, gender, sexual orientation and medical and/or physical abilities.

All offers of employment with GlobalFoundries are conditioned upon the successful completion of background checks, medical screenings as applicable and subject to the respective local laws and regulations.