Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in field of Hardware Emulation. 
• 5+ years of experience in CAD tool/flow development.
• 4+ years of experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Python, etc.
• 4+ years of experience with scripting and automation environments. 
• 2+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above). 
• 1+ years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Principal

Duties and Responsibilities:

• As CAD Emulation Lead, you will own Hardware Emulation methodologies and workflow for CPU and SOC teams.
• Gather requirements from users and/or vendors to adopt the most optimal solutions.
• Modify and/or develop complex tools and workflows that improve productivity and efficiency of design team.
• Provide timely and accurate responses to questions and issues from customers (e.g., design engineers).
• Perform root cause analyses on complex customer problems to identify underlying issue and interact with external vendors.
• Maximize the utilization of emulation and FPGA based prototyping infrastructure while maintaining stability and meeting resource sharing constraints. 
• Debug software issues and escalates only highly complex technical issues to technical leads or Principal Engineers.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

•    Leverages advanced knowledge of computer architecture, micro-architecture, logic design, circuits, and/or physical design to develop and verify critical high performance and low power CPU designs.

•    Anticipates, identifies, and solves highly complex problems to ensure design completeness, functionality, power, and performance. 

•    Collaborates with cross-functional teams to define requirements, specifications, and trade-offs (e.g., performance, power, cost, functionalities, etc.) in order to accomplish product goals.

•    Evaluates all aspects of the design process from conceptualization to productization (i.e., architecture definition, feasibility, pre-silicon design and verification, and post-silicon validation) that meet customer and industry standards.  

•    Writes detailed technical documentation (e.g., feature descriptions, architectural descriptions, verification test plans, and implementation details, etc.) for highly complex CPU designs; reviews documentation of junior engineers.

Level of Responsibility:

•    Works independently with minimal supervision.

•    Provides supervision/guidance to other team members.
•    Decision-making is significant in nature and affects work beyond immediate work group.
•    Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey complex information. May require negotiation, influence, tact, etc. 

•    Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions.

•    Tasks do not have defined steps; planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.

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