SMTS Silicon Design Engineer

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 engineering team furthers and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase success as well as facilitate continuous career development.

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 RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Responsible for the design and development of test environment components to support the pre-silicon validation of embedded firmware, BIOS features and other IP features of 0x86 based SOC.
• Responsible for writing directed tests to verify features in a co-simulated and emulated/FPGA hardware environment.
• Responsible for writing monitors and checkers to support end-to-end firmware/hardware validation.
• Responsible for writing and developing coverage goals and test plans.
• Responsible for running emulator workloads to test new features and debug technical issues using logs, waveform dumps and RTL debug.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with BIOS/OS bring up on x86 based SOC emulation platform.
• Experience working with CPU, GPU, and Memory subsystem.
• Experience with System Verilog, C/C++, or UVM for SOC verification.
• Must have hands-on experience on Zebu/Palladium/Veloce platform to bring-up the SOC.
• Experience in writing and debugging testbenches.
• Good understanding of Power Management Modes / SOC and IP power states.
• Good understanding of PCIe/USB/Ethernet standards.
• Experience on debugging SOC IO interfaces with Transactor solutions in emulation platform.
• Hands-on experience writing scripts using Python, Shell, or TCL.
• Think differently and out of the box to stress the DUT in Emulation platform and verify it in efficient way.
• Should be open to learning verification methodologies and working closely with design, verification, validation, architecture and firmware teams
• Experience with VCS simulation tool, Perl/Shell scripting, and Verilog RTL design

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering with 13+ years of experience