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Waymo

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Business Operations
Posted
Jun 15, 2026
Salary
$175,000–$215,000 a year
Full-time

Silicon Emulation Engineer

Job description

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to a Silicon Engineering Lead.

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases.

Waymo's Compute Team is tasked with a critical and exciting mission: We deliver the compute platform responsible for…

Job responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the Design, Verification, and Software teams to simulate future silicon designs and software on an emulation platform, targeting functional and performance validation and left-shift of software…
  • Design, implement, and optimize emulation testbenches, balancing performance and debug capabilities based on user needs and hardware constraints
  • Write end-to-end synthesizable transactors to interact with emulated designs through software APIs and C-DPI
  • Triage and root-cause failures alongside emulation users, leveraging waveforms, software logging, and custom-built emulation monitors
  • Assist with post-silicon bring-up, debug, and characterization
  • Build infrastructure to support the emulation user base, including tools for model build, regression, automation, continuous integration, data analysis, and training

Job requirements

  • BS degree in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering or related field and 5 years of silicon development experience.
  • Experience with at least one major hardware emulation platform (Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, Protium, HAPS).
  • High level of proficiency with one or more of the following emulation approaches: virtual prototyping, testbench acceleration, hybrid emulation, in-circuit emulation (speed bridge), QEMU, or VirtualBox
  • Experience with SystemVerilog and design verification methodologies
  • Programming and scripting (C++, Python, or TCL) for automation, test development, debug flows, and release process.
  • Strong debug and problem-solving ability across hardware and software
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