Functional Verification Senior Staff Engineer Job Listing at AMD in Santa Clara, CA (Job ID 68894-en-us)

Description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. 

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THE ROLE:

We are looking for an adaptive, self-motivative design verification engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD's abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market. The Verification Engineering team furthers and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development. 

THE PERSON: 

A successful candidate will work with and help lead verification engineers. The candidate will be highly accurate and detail-oriented, possessing good communication and problem-solving skills.

KEY RESPONSIBILITES:

• Research, design, develop, and/or test electronic components and systems for semiconductor and related device manufacturing, employing knowledge of electronic theory.
• Perform pre-Silicon Functional Verification of next generation high performance Microprocessor designs
• Develop and execute on verification testplans at various levels of design hierarchy including unit and full-chip environments
• Hands on technical management contributor in functional verification
• Provide technical leadership and help identify bottlenecks and propose new features to help improve overall processes
• Develop high level language testbench components including stimulus drivers, BFMs, behavioral models, monitors and checkers
• Develop, simulate and debug directed and random stimulus and assembly level tests to find bugs in the microprocessor design; verify the functionality and verify conformance to the ISA
• Find bugs in the design and work with RTL writers to resolve all simulation failures and discrepancies
• Develop and analyze assertions and coverage terms. Participate in technical reviews of the specifications, design and testplans. Identify and address areas of concern to meet design quality objectives.
• Develop tools, infrastructure, processes and flows to enable functional verification
• Document testplans and testbench component plans and drive reviews with peers and stakeholders.
• Maintain and improve existing functional verification infrastructure and methodology.
• When presented with Silicon issues, replicate in the pre-silicon environment and provide debug expertise to root cause the issue and ensure complete validation
• Contribute towards and drive as needed pre-silicon and/or post-silicon verification of complex architectural and microarchitectural features
• Drive project deliverables and dependencies with cross-site Architects, RTL writers, and Physical Design engineers.
• Independently develop quality, timely and cost effective solutions.
• Demonstrate technical leadership across project and departmental boundaries.
• Establish and maintain AMD's technological leadership position in an area.
• Deal with problems requiring cutting edge approaches and and champion innovation across the organization.
• Represents AMD to the outside technical community, partners and vendors.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Documented and demonstrable expertise in at least four of the following either academic or professional setting
• Modern computer architecture including processor pipeline and memory hierarchy
• Hands-on work in C++ programming for either hardware modeling or testbench development or projects of similar scope and complexity
• Logic design and representing the same in HDL (e.g. Verilog or VHDL)
• Assembly language programming and Instruction Set Architecture of a modern microprocessor
• Hardware Verification methodology and techniques such as simulation, debug, coverage, formal, etc.
• Hands on people management, guiding and developing team members. Strategic Planning and performance management
• Experience working in a Unix/Linux environment
• Demonstrate good communication skills, and abilities to work with a diverse team

• Scripting languages (e.g. Perl or Python or Ruby)
• Hardware/logic simulators (e.g. VCS or NC-Verilog)
• Debug tools or waveform viewers
• Verification languages (e.g. Specman or System Verilog or UVM)
• Formal verification tools and techniques
• Modeling hardware designs in emulators or FPGAs

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering 

 LOCATION:

• Santa Clara, CA

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AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants' needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.