Emulation & FPGA Prototyping Engineer
- Level
- Mid
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 19 October 2026.
About the role
Voltai's standard text
About Voltai
Voltai is developing world models, and agents to learn, evaluate, plan, experiment, and interact with the physical world. We are starting out with understanding and building hardware; electronics systems and semiconductors where AI can design and create beyond human cognitive limits.
About the Team
Backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors, Stanford University, and CEOs/Presidents of Google, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, etc. We are a team of previous Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, Olympiad medalists (IPhO, IOI, etc.), the inventors of IC3 and the Murphi verification system, CTOs of Synopsys & GlobalFoundries, Head of Sales & CRO of Cadence, former US Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Senior Foreign-Policy Advisor to four US presidents.
About this Role
You'll bring designs to life before silicon exists. You'll own emulation and FPGA prototyping on real silicon programs with leading semiconductor companies while helping Voltai's AI learn to debug at system scale.
What You’ll Do
- Build and maintain emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms for SoCs and subsystems.
- Map designs onto emulators and FPGAs, including partitioning and timing closure.
- Enable early software bring-up, system validation, and performance analysis.
- Debug complex hardware/software issues at system scale.
- Build automation for emulation compile, run, and triage.
- Generate system-level data that helps train and evaluate Voltai's models.
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of emulation or FPGA prototyping experience.
- Hands-on experience with Palladium, ZeBu, Veloce, or HAPS.
- Strong SystemVerilog and FPGA tooling (Vivado, Quartus) experience.
- Experience with hardware/software co-verification and debug.
- Python, Tcl, or C/C++ scripting.
Bonus Points
- Experience with transactors and hybrid emulation.
- Linux driver or firmware bring-up experience.
- Interest in AI-assisted design tools.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
C · FPGA · Linux · Verilog
Rare in Voltai's other 16 open postings.
Standard for embedded / hardware roles
C++ · Embedded Systems · Python
Common in embedded / hardware postings at any company.
84% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Voltai's standard text, folded away below.
Compared with Voltai's other open jobs.
The team: Chips & Silicon HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 12 open in Chips & Silicon. 10 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in November: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (11 of 12), C++ (3 of 12), Verilog (3 of 12), C (2 of 12), Machine Learning (2 of 12)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Post-Silicon Validation Engineer posted Oct 19
- Design for Test (DFT) Engineer posted Oct 19
- CAD & Flow Methodology Engineer posted Oct 19
- Physical Verification & Signoff Engineer posted Oct 19
- Low-Power Design Engineer posted Oct 19
- Physical Design Engineer posted Oct 19
- Synthesis & Static Timing Analysis (STA) Engineer posted Oct 19
- RTL Design Engineer posted Oct 19
- Chip Architect posted Oct 19
- Formal Verification Engineer posted Nov 12
- Design Verification Engineer posted Nov 12
From the team and dates on Voltai's own job board.
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