Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sr. SOC Emulation Engineer, Silicon and Systems Group
Sunnyvale, California, USA · Senior
Stay score
odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$4,408 more — $187,408 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $187,408 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Electronics Engineers, Except Computer" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Electronics Engineers, Except Computer (17-2072) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
Community outcomes
No reports yet — be the first to help the next applicant.
About the role
- We have also produced ground-breaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo, and the Astro personal robot.
- In this role, you will be responsible for defining the emulation bring up environment for ASIC and system level emulation.
- You will responsible for the bring-up of these blocks.
Responsibilities
- Build and bring-up emulation models for complex SOC designs
- Develop and maintain emulation environments and methodologies
- Develop and maintain C++ based emulation testbench framework
- Create and execute verification test plans
- Interface with cross-functional teams including RTL, verification and silicon validation engineers to validate designs on emulation platforms
- Enable and partner with software team on software bring-up and root-cause bugs
- Optimize emulation performance and resource utilization
- Document processes, methodologies, and technical specifications
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
- 10+ years of experience in SOC emulation and validation.
- Proficiency in Hardware Description Languages (Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL).
- Experience with programming languages( C/C++) and scripting skills in Python, Tcl, and/or Perl.
- Strong expertise with industry-standard emulation platforms (e.g.,
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
- Knowledge of ARM-based SOC architectures.
- Experience debugging system-level issues - Working experience with high performance industry standard buses like AMBA AXI4.
- Experience with transaction level modeling and transactor development.
- Experience with industry standard I/O interfaces.
- Experience with Embedded firmware/software.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for hardware verification.
- Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff
Compensation
- $183k-$248k
This listing is sourced directly from Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.