[Permanent position] Emulation engineer
Pubblicato il 29-10-2026 - SiPearl in Bologna
❓ About SiPearl…
SiPearl is the European fabless designer of sovereign secure high-performance energy-efficient CPUs for HPC, AI and data centres. These CPUs will help address strategic challenges in the fields of security, defence, medical research, energy, climate and engineering with a reduced environmental footprint.
In June 25, SiPearl completed the design of the most complex CPU ever designed in Europe, Rhea1. Featuring 80 Arm Neoverse V1 cores, with 61 billion transistors, it is currently in production at TSMC. Sipearl CPUs will equip the two first European exascale supercomputers belonging to EuroHPC JU: Rhea1 will be integrated into the JUPITER machine based in Germany and Rhea2 will be part of Alice Recoque in France.
Incubated within the European Processor Initiative (EPI) consortium and seed-funded by the European Union, SiPearl employs almost 200 people in :
- France (Maisons-Laffitte, Grenoble, Massy, Sophia Antipolis),
- Spain (Barcelona)
- and Italy (Bologna)
Following a €130 million Series A, the company has launched its Series B round.
About the role
At SiPearl, we are developing highly complex multi-chiplets/multi-sockets CPUs, based on latest technologies for processors, NoCs and overall architecture. Those need best in class emulation platforms, and that's what our team is proud to provide.
SiPearl owns one of the biggest emulation platform in Europe (in-house), a dual Veloce StratoM+, with a total capacity of 128 boards (6BGates) and up to 30 concurrent users 24/7.
We even model our physical evaluation board (BMC)
to shift left the Firmware and Software development pre-silicon and validate pre-tape-out the entire software stack.
As an Emulation Engineer at SiPearl, you will be at the heart of our projects and R&D;, and an enabler for all teams success.
Your missions
- Contribute to emulation setup: Participate in capturing emulation needs and help define emulator configurations. Support compilation, execution, and debugging flows.
- Support RTL adaptation for emulation: Assist in identifying and documenting required RTL changes and related collaterals needed for emulation.
- Participate in verification activities: Contribute to the pre-silicon verification effort by supporting the emulation environment and validation activities.
- Develop and maintain emulation workflows: Contribute to the development and maintenance of emulation workflows and help integrate hardware and software collaterals.
- Improve and automate workflows: Implement improvements and develop scripts/tools to facilitate debugging and improve the user experience.
- Generate and maintain emulation models: Use EDA tools to build and maintain emulation models, debug issues,
and help optimize execution performance and model size.
- Interact with tool vendors: Report issues, follow up on resolutions, and test fixes or new features provided by EDA vendors.
- Provide user support: Assist engineers using the emulation platform, help troubleshoot issues, and propose practical solutions or workarounds.
What would make you succeed in this role
- At least 6 years of digital ASIC
- At least 4 years of experience on emulation plateform
- Good knowledge on modern CPU architecture
- Experience using verification tools
- Experience with embedded C
- Python, HDL, bash
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Autonomy & responsability
Dear candidate, even if you consider you do not fulfill all the qualifications mentioned above, please still apply and share with us why you believe you would be a good fit.
Recruitment process
✔️Discovery interview with our Talent Acquisition Partner (30 min)
✔️AssessFirst personality test - no need to worry, there is no wrong or right answer; our goal is to see beyond your resume (45')
✔️2 Technical interviews (1h each)
✔️Interview with one HRBP in order to answer to your last questions (30 min)
Benefits and conditions
- Contract: Permanent Contract
- Benefits : annual premio*; meal vouchers (60% covered by SiPearl); health insurance (70% covered by SiPearl); illimited access and pre-paid sessions with a practitioner of your choice on our mental health partner app, moka.care ; technical, linguistic and pe