IP Post-Silicon Validation Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc • Markham, ON

8h • Hybrid

About The Position

The AMD NBIO Team is looking for a dynamic and upbeat IP Validation Design Engineer to join their growing team. As a key contributor to the success of AMD’s IP, you will be part of a leading team driving and improving AMD’s abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market. The NBIO Team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.

Requirements

• Passion for modern, complex processor architecture, digital design, and validation.
• Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with other engineers located in different sites/timezones.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to learn and ability to independently drive tasks to completion.
• Experience in digital logic design/verification/post-silicon validation.
• Extensive experience with ASIC debug techniques and methodologies.
• Experience with board/platform-level debug, including clock/power delivery, sequencing, analysis, and optimization.
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Ruby, Python).
• Extensive experience with common lab equipment, including protocol/logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to excel in a dynamic team working environment.
• Must be a self-starter and be able to independently drive tasks to completion.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of physical and protocol levels of common high-speed interfaces such as PCIe/CXL/UALINK is an asset.
• In-depth knowledge of PC architectures/PCIe protocol is an asset.
• Leadership and mentoring skills a definite asset.

Responsibilities

• Drive the planning, validation, and debug of various hardware IP for forthcoming AMD APU, CPU, Compute and Discrete Graphics SOC programs.
• Define, document, execute, and report the overall functional test plan and validation strategy for a set of AMD IP’s.
• Drive technical innovation to enhance AMD's capabilities in IP validation, including tools and scripts/automation development, technical and procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross-functional technical initiatives.
• Debug IP issues found during pre-silicon, bring-up, system validation, and production phases of the SOC programs.
• Engage on pre-silicon ‘shift left’ activities with cross-functional teams such as Design Verification (DV), Diagnostics, Emulation and other software/hardware modeling frameworks to ensure readiness for first silicon arrival, enablement of IP functionality, and debug of critical features.
• Lead collaborative technical discussions to drive resolution of technical issues and roll out technical initiatives.
• Develop knowledge of system architecture/debug and other internal IP’s.
• Support issues on customer platforms as requested by customer support teams.

Benefits

• AMD benefits at a glance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level