Validation/Emulation Engineer

Direct Staffing Inc

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Austin, TX, us on site Until 8/23/2026 First posted February 23, 2026 Last posted February 23, 2026
Job description

Engineering

Validation/Emulation Engineer
Austin Texas -

Exp 5-7 years
Degree Bachelors
Relo
Bonus
Occasional Travel

Job Description

Responsibilities include:

Develop and execute the emulation and validation test plans for new products
Develop scalable lab validation infrastructure, including scripts and hardware setups
Design and debug emulation system hardware
Set up and maintain software tool flows supporting RTL synthesis to an FPGA.
Define and execute experiments to support product design
Debug and troubleshoot lab setup issues

Qualifications:

Bachelor/Masters in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 5 to 10 years of experience in a validation engineering role
Extensive experience verifying digital and analog circuits, and system performance
Strong ability to architect lab validation environments, including test bench setups and the software environment.
Strong communication, documentation, and organization skills, along with project leadership capabilities.
Ability to understand silicon, board hardware, and software interactions, including interactions that encompass customer usage models
PCB design skills for high-performance analog and digital circuits. Experience with FPGA integration and serial communication buses is highly desired
Experience with creating or maintaining RTL images for emulation. Experience with Verilog development is a highly desired
Ability to develop a statement of work for experiments, and develop the test solutions to deliver on the statement of work
Very strong skills and experience using oscilloscopes, multi-meters, frequency domain signal analyzers, analog test stimulus generation equipment
Experience with scripting languages such as Perl and/or Matlab is highly desired.
Basic skills in statistical analysis

Qualifications:

Bachelor/Masters in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 5 to 10 years of experience in a validation engineering role
Extensive experience verifying digital and analog circuits, and system performance
Strong ability to architect lab validation environments, including test bench setups and the software environment. 
Strong communication, documentation, and organization skills, along with project leadership capabilities. 
Ability to understand silicon, board hardware, and software interactions, including interactions that encompass customer usage models
PCB design skills for high-performance analog and digital circuits. Experience with FPGA integration and serial communication buses is highly desired
Experience with creating or maintaining RTL images for emulation. Experience with Verilog development is a highly desired
Ability to develop a statement of work for experiments, and develop the test solutions to deliver on the statement of work
Very strong skills and experience using oscilloscopes, multi-meters, frequency domain signal analyzers, analog test stimulus generation equipment
Experience with scripting languages such as Perl and/or Matlab is highly desired.
Basic skills in statistical analysis

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Direct Staffing Inc


About this role

Summary

Develop and execute validation and emulation test plans for new products, hardware, and software integration.

Job title

Validation/Emulation Engineer

Experience level

5-10 years

Industry

electronics

Location requirements

Austin, TX, remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

digital circuitsanalog circuitsFPGAVerilogoscilloscopesmulti-meterssignal analyzersPerlMatlab

Preferred skills

PCB designserial communication busesRTL imagesstatistical analysis

Specializations

validationemulationhardwareFPGARTL
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Austin, TX, USA

On-site City