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About the Role
Renesas is seeking a Principal FPGA Emulation & Prototyping Engineer to build and own FPGA-based platforms that emulate mixed-signal power ASICs before silicon. You will bring designs up on FPGA to validate real-time digital, mixed-signal, and power-control architectures pre-silicon, proving out control loops, catching RTL issues early, and de-risking tape-out. These platforms are emulation vehicles, not production hardware, and success is measured by their faithful and fast reproduction of the target silicon.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with silicon RTL and DSP architects to bring ASIC designs up on FPGA, advising on FPGA-ability and turning architectural intent into a working, real-time emulation platform.
- Adapt ASIC RTL for FPGA emulation while preserving functional equivalence to the golden design.
- Map designs onto the FPGA fabric to fit and achieve emulation speed.
- Build the real-time environment around the digital core, modeling or interfacing to analog and power stages.
- Develop deep pre-silicon debug and visibility, enabling firmware/software co-development ahead of silicon.
- Define and continuously improve the emulation methodology, RTL/FPGA-ability guidelines, flows, and automation.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring engineers, leading reviews, and driving emulation and tooling decisions.
Requirements
- Extensive FPGA design and implementation experience (typically 10+ years), including a track record of FPGA prototyping or emulation of ASIC/SoC designs.
- Expert-level RTL design in SystemVerilog and/or VHDL, with deep familiarity working from ASIC-style RTL.
- Deep understanding of FPGA internal architecture and primitives and a proven ability to map designs onto these resources.
- Hands-on experience adapting ASIC RTL for FPGA.
- Strong command of the full FPGA implementation flow on large Xilinx and/or Intel (Altera) devices, using Vivado and/or Quartus.
- Hardware bring-up and debug experience.
- Proficiency scripting for automation (TCL, Python).
- Demonstrated technical leadership — mentoring, reviews, and driving cross-team technical decisions.
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Skills
- SystemVerilog
- VHDL
- FPGA implementation flow
- Synthesis
- Place-and-route
- Timing analysis
- Constraint development (XDC/SDC)
- Vivado
- Quartus
- Hardware bring-up
- Debug
- In-system logic analysis (ILA/SignalTap)
- Lab instrumentation
- TCL
- Python
- Real-time emulation
- Analog/mixed-signal modeling
- Power stage modeling
- Digital power-conversion control
- Mixed-signal systems
- FPGA DSP implementation
- High-throughput techniques
- High-speed interface (JESD204B, PCIe, 1G/10G Ethernet, Aurora)
- ASIC design
- DFT/scan considerations
- Board architecture
- High-speed PCB design
- Signal integrity
- Embedded/microcontroller
- Firmware co-development (C/assembly)
- MATLAB
- C/C++
Location
- Remote Work Available: No
Work Type
- Employment Type: Regular (PERM)
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
About the Company
- Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose, To Make Our Lives Easier.
- With a global team of over 21,000 engineers and problem solvers in more than 30 countries, we offer the opportunity to work on world‑leading technology for Automotive, Industrial, Infrastructure, and IoT, shaping a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter future.
- At Renesas, TAGIE is our culture, grounded in being Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial.
- It shapes how we work, grow and deliver on our purpose together.
- This collaborative spirit and mindset drive our semiconductor technology to transform industries and impact millions of lives.
Equal Opportunity
- Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.
- For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.
- Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.