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AVTC Group

Principal FPGA Engineer (DOD cleared)

Tucson, AZ · On-site

$122.90K - $157.90K/yr

... or Contract Rate: open to Negotiation Benefits: including Health, Dental Vision, PTO, Holidays ... Experience with emulation platforms such as Veloce. * Strong technical documentation and review ...

AVTC Group

Senior FPGA Engineer (DOD cleared)

Tucson, AZ · On-site

$122.90K - $157.90K/yr

... or Contract Rate: open to Negotiation Benefits: including Health, Dental Vision, PTO, Holidays ... Experience with emulation platforms such as Veloce. * Strong technical documentation and review ...

Geologics

FPGA Engineer

Tucson, AZ

$65 - $116/hr

Contract or Contract to Hire REQUIRED: Secret Security clearance issued by the Department of ... Verification utilizing emulation platforms, such as Veloce  Please respond to Meredith Baldwin ...

Geologics

FPGA Engineer

Tucson, AZ

$65 - $116/hr

Contract or Contract to Hire REQUIRED: Secret Security clearance issued by the Department of ... Verification utilizing emulation platforms, such as Veloce  Please respond to Meredith Baldwin ...

Mythic

Senior RTL Design Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

$120K - $225K/yr

... contracts across multiple markets. The salary range for this position is $120,000-$225,000 ... The team works closely with architecture, custom analog IP, compiler, verification, emulation, and ...

Mythic

Senior RTL Design Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

$120K - $225K/yr

... contracts across multiple markets. The salary range for this position is $120,000-$225,000 ... The team works closely with architecture, custom analog IP, compiler, verification, emulation, and ...

Mythic

Senior RTL Design Engineer

Austin, TX

$120K - $225K/yr

... contracts across multiple markets. The salary range for this position is $120,000-$225,000 ... The team works closely with architecture, custom analog IP, compiler, verification, emulation, and ...

Mythic

Senior RTL Design Engineer

Austin, TX

$120K - $225K/yr

... contracts across multiple markets. The salary range for this position is $120,000-$225,000 ... The team works closely with architecture, custom analog IP, compiler, verification, emulation, and ...

Mythic

Senior RTL Design Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

$120K - $225K/yr

... contracts across multiple markets. The salary range for this position is $120,000-$225,000 ... The team works closely with architecture, custom analog IP, compiler, verification, emulation, and ...

Mythic

Senior RTL Design Engineer

Austin, TX · On-site

$120K - $225K/yr

... contracts across multiple markets. The salary range for this position is $120,000-$225,000 ... The team works closely with architecture, custom analog IP, compiler, verification, emulation, and ...

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How much do contract emulation engineer jobs pay per hour?

As of May 30, 2026, the average hourly pay for contract emulation engineer in the United States is $53.63, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $43.27 and $62.26 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Contract Emulation Engineer, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Contract Emulation Engineer, you need a strong background in hardware design, verification methodologies, and programming languages such as SystemVerilog, along with a relevant engineering degree. Familiarity with emulation platforms like Cadence Palladium, Mentor Veloce, or Synopsys ZeBu, and industry-standard verification tools, is typically required. Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and effective communication are crucial soft skills for collaborating with cross-functional teams and debugging complex systems. These capabilities are essential for efficiently validating hardware designs, ensuring product reliability, and meeting project deadlines in high-stakes environments.

What are some typical challenges Contract Emulation Engineers face when working with new hardware designs?

Contract Emulation Engineers often encounter challenges when integrating complex, new hardware designs into emulation platforms. These can include debugging compatibility issues, optimizing performance to match real-world scenarios, and ensuring accurate representation of the hardware's behavior. Collaboration with design engineers and verification teams is key to quickly resolving issues and delivering reliable results on tight project timelines. Staying updated with the latest emulation tools and methodologies also helps in overcoming these technical hurdles.

What are Contract Emulation Engineers?

Contract Emulation Engineers are specialized professionals who design, develop, and test hardware or software systems that replicate the functionality of electronic components or systems—often under a contract arrangement. Their work is crucial in industries like semiconductor, automotive, and aerospace, where they help validate designs before physical prototypes are built. They use tools such as FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) and emulation platforms to simulate real-world performance, enabling faster and more cost-effective development cycles. Typically, they collaborate with design teams to ensure that emulated systems accurately mirror intended behaviors and facilitate efficient debugging.
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SoC Platform Software Engineering Manager, Annapurna Labs Machine Learning Acceleration, AWS

SoC Platform Software Engineering Manager, Annapurna Labs Machine Learning Acceleration, AWS

Amazon

Cupertino, CA

Full-time

Posted 21 days ago

Amazon rating

7.4

Company rating: 7.4 out of 10

Based on 6,788 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

7th of 39 rated national retailers

Job description

One C++ codebase. Three radically different execution environments. We're looking for an engineering manager who thinks in terms of platforms, abstractions, and portable software architecture - and can lead a team that ships all three.
Our SoC HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) team builds the platform software layer for AWS's custom Trainium and Inferentia ML accelerator chips

The HAL is a shared library that boots, configures, and manages every hardware block on the SoC - 270+ instances per chip - and the same source tree compiles and runs on SystemVerilog DPI for chip verification, QEMU for system emulation, and Carbon OS in microcontrollers within the AWS production fleet. Your platform abstractions are what make this possible, and your APIs are the interface that 100's of engineers across verification, emulation, and production use to interact with the chip.
Tech stack: C++17, CMake, GoogleTest, Python, SystemVerilog DPI, SPI, APB/AXI bus protocols, PCIe, UCIe, HBM, PLL, custom IPs
As the SoC Platform Software Manager, you will:
- Manage, coach, and grow a team of 6 engineers - set technical direction, own hiring, and create an environment where strong engineers want to stay
- Own the platform abstraction layer that enables one C++ codebase to compile and run correctly across three target environments with fundamentally different runtime characteristics
- Shape the external API contracts that verification, emulation, and production teams build on - balancing stability for consumers against the need to evolve as new chip generations arrive
- Drive the architecture of our C++ template metaprogramming framework that generates type-safe register interfaces for every hardware block, and our BUTR (Built-in Unit Test for Registers) and HITL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) test infrastructure
- Build and maintain the CI/CD and validation strategy that catches integration issues across all three platforms before they reach customers
- Coordinate across chip architects, RTL designers, verification engineers, validation engineers, and platform software teams - you're the single point of accountability for HAL readiness on every new chip program
- Get into the weeds alongside your team - debug register-level HW/SW interactions, review code, and write code yourself when it matters
Most platform software teams target one OS or one hardware family. We target three execution environments from a single source tree - and our software must be stateless, survive live-updates on running production servers without reboots, and be correct down to individual register bits

A single abstraction leak can break chip verification, stall emulation, or misconfigure millions of servers in AWS's global fleet.
The HAL runs on an external microcontroller running embedded Linux, reaching into the chip over SPI and PCIe. It's stateless by design: the microcontroller can reboot at any time - including during customer workloads - and the HAL must resume managing the SoC by querying hardware state on-demand. Your platform layer is what makes this resilience possible while keeping the complexity invisible to consumers.
The same codebase that runs in pre-silicon simulation months before tape-out is the codebase that runs in production fleet

When the chip comes back from the fab, your team validates that pre-silicon models match real hardware behavior. For Trainium3, our HAL enabled a full ML training workload within 12 hours of first power-on: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/trainium-3-ultraserver-faster-ai-training-lower-cost
No ML background needed. Your platform software is the foundation that enables ML training across clusters of thousands of interconnected accelerators - you'll work on components like PCIe and HBM, but won't need to understand ML itself.
This role can be based in Cupertino, CA or Austin, TX

The team is split between the two sites.

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It services, book publishers, retail, real estate and computer and electronic product manufacturing

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10,000+ Employees

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Seattle, WA, US

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