Software Engineer
Lead Emulation Engineer guiding pre‑silicon validation of next‑gen AI inference ASICs on Cadence Palladium, architecting complex model builds, managing multi‑rack partitioning, and driving end‑to‑end emulation strategy for high‑performance, power‑efficient hardware acceleration.
About Positron AI
Positron.ai specializes in developing custom hardware systems to accelerate AI inference. These inference systems offer significant performance and efficiency gains over traditional GPU-based systems, delivering advantages in both performance per dollar and performance per watt. Positron exists to create the world's best AI inference systems.
About the role
As a Lead Emulation Engineer , you will provide technical leadership for the pre-silicon validation of Positron.ai ’s next-generation AI inference ASIC. You will own the end-to-end emulation strategy on the Cadence Palladium platform—architecting complex model builds, managing multi-rack partitioning, and driving the 'left-shift' of our software development. You will collaborate across RTL, DV, and Software teams to build high-performance virtual environments that prove out architectural functionality and accelerate firmware/OS bring-up months before tape-out. This role is critical to our silicon success: you will set the emulation methodology, resolve hardware-software bottlenecks at scale, and ensure our design is silicon-ready.
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Posted June 21, 2026