US_East | Software Developer - Client Server_L3

Role: Principal Engineer, AI Hardware Modeling

Work location: Mountain View, CA





Job Description:

The Principal Engineer, AI Hardware Modeling (NPU), within the NPU Hardware & Software organization, is a senior individual contributor role for an engineer with deep expertise in hardware modeling, emulation, and hardware–software co-design. This role provides expert-level technical leadership in developing and maintaining bit-accurate and cycle-accurate hardware models that represent complex AI accelerator and NPU architectures used in ADAS, autonomous driving, and in-vehicle AI platforms.

This role owns the architecture and evolution of hardware modeling frameworks, translates conceptual hardware designs into robust, scalable software models, and enables early software development, verification, and performance analysis ahead of silicon availability. The Principal Engineer, AI Hardware Modeling (NPU) operates with a high degr...