Staff Emulation & FPGA Prototyping Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Hybrid (Downtown Toronto with occasional travel)
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

This role within the Hardware team at Untether AI focuses on utilizing FPGA-based platforms, hardware emulation systems, and prototyping environments to validate pre-silicon designs. The successful candidate will be instrumental in ensuring the functionality, performance, and reliability of Untether AI's system-on-chip (SoC) designs before they transition to silicon.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in RTL design (ASIC or FPGA).
• FPGA Experience: 3+ years of experience working directly with complex FPGA designs and/or hardware emulation systems.
• Skills:
  • Proven ability to develop and maintain high-quality design documents.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• FPGA Prototyping:
  • Develop and deploy FPGA-based prototypes for functional and performance validation of SoC subsystems.
  • Partition, synthesize, and implement complex RTL designs on FPGA platforms, ensuring timing closure and optimal resource utilization.
  • Debug FPGA implementations to ensure alignment with design specifications.
• Hardware Emulation:
  • Configure and operate hardware emulation systems (e.g., Synopsys ZeBu, Cadence Palladium/Protium, or Mentor Veloce) for large-scale pre-silicon validation.
  • Develop and optimize transactors, bridges, and test environments for emulation platforms.
  • Collaborate with design and verification teams to debug and resolve functional issues identified during emulation.
• Integration and Early Software Development:
  • Identify and root-cause hardware, firmware, and software integration issues.
  • Collaborate with firmware and software teams to enable early bring-up and pre-tapeout driver development.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Software programming with C, C++ and Python.
• Development in a Linux environment, compiling and working with shared libraries and kernel modules.
• Experience with low-level firmware code (i.e. interacting with SoC IPs).
• Processor architectures and AMBA bus structures.
• Experience with high speed interfaces (DDR, HBM, PCIe).
• Microcontroller or single-board computer programming experience.

Application Instructions

• Not specified in the provided text.

Company Information

• Company: Untether AI
• Philosophy: Aligned to Untether’s philosophy, employees enjoy the same perks, regardless of role or level.
• Perks:
  • 20 vacation days
  • Strong health and extended health benefits
  • Unlimited sick days
  • Stock options
  • Building chips and software that will change the world
• Note: Occasional travel to the downtown Toronto office is required.