MTS Silicon Design Engineer

THE ROLE:

The focus of this role is to plan, build, and execute the verification of new and existing features for AMD SOCs

THE PERSON:

You have a passion for modern, complex processor architecture, digital design, and verification in general. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with other engineers located in different sites/timezones. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Collaborate with architects, hardware engineers, and firmware engineers to understand the new features to be verified

Build test plan documentation, accounting for interactions with other features, the hardware, the firmware, and the software driver use cases

Estimate the time required to write the new feature tests and any required changes to the test environment

Build the directed and random verification tests

Debug test failures to determine the root cause; work with RTL and firmware engineers to resolve design defects and correct any test issues

Review functional and code coverage metrics modify or add tests or constrain random tests to meet the coverage requirements

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

Proficient in IP/Sub-System/SOC level ASIC verification

Proficient in debugging firmware and RTL code using simulation tools

Proficient in using UVM testbenches and working in Linux and Windows environments

Experienced with Verilog, System Verilog, C, and C++

Processor Micro-Architecture concepts Reset/Boot-flow/Cache Coherency/Interrupt flows knowledge.

Experience in Power Management and Power aware UPF based verification

Developing UVM based verification frameworks and testbenches, processes and flows

Automating workflows in a distributed compute environment.

Exposure to simulation profile, efficiency improvement, acceleration, HLS tools/process

Strong background in the C++ language, preferably on Linux with exposure to Windows platform

Good understanding and hands-on experience in the UVM concepts and System Verilog language

Good working knowledge of System C and TLM with some related experience.

Scripting language experience: Perl, Ruby, Make file, shell preferred.

Exposure to leadership or mentorship is an asset

Desirable assets with prior exposure to video codec system or other multimedia solutions.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electronics/Electrical Engineering