Lead IP/SOC Verification

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Folsom, CA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

In this high-profile role, the Lead IP/SOC Verification will be the overall design verification lead for next generation graphics program. You will work across all of engineering and business to meet overall verification needs A successful candidate will work with senior silicon design engineers. The candidate will be highly accurate and detail-oriented, possessing good communication and problem-solving skills. Good understanding of requirements management, documentation management, and defect management Ability to grasp concepts during discussions and turn minutes into action items Able to communicate concepts and processes with stakeholders Analytical, self-motivated, organized, detailed-oriented and results-oriented Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work well with multiple people and teams, ability to communicate progress to team members on a regular basis Experience working in a high-pressure environment and competing priorities and tight turnaround times

Requirements

Good understanding of requirements management, documentation management, and defect management
Ability to grasp concepts during discussions and turn minutes into action items
Able to communicate concepts and processes with stakeholders
Analytical, self-motivated, organized, detailed-oriented and results-oriented
Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work well with multiple people and teams, ability to communicate progress to team members on a regular basis
Experience working in a high-pressure environment and competing priorities and tight turnaround times
Undergrad degree required. Bachelor, Master's or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering preferred.
This role is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Experience focused on IP and/or SOC verification with successful completion of multiple ASICs that are in production
Prior experience in Graphics domain is highly beneficial, though not a requirement
Requires proven track record in technical leadership. This includes planning, execution, tracking, verification closure, and delivery to programs.
Requires strong experience with development of UVM, SystemVerilog, C/C++ and Scripting Languages
Requires strong understanding of state of the art of verification techniques, including assertion and metric-driven verification
Good understanding of code and functional coverage, ability to influence coverage improvement with design and verification teams
Experience with Processor based SoC verification and understanding of at least one ISA is a plus
Experience with gate level simulation, power verification, reset verification, abstraction techniques is a plus
Experience with Agile methodology, JIRA and Confluence

Responsibilities

Closely work with designers and architect to come up with features, verification and execution plans
Own and lead verification quality for GFXIP projects
Engage with IP and SOC teams to drive closure to verification strategy
Working with architects and verification leads and driving quality test plan specifications.
Collaborate with architects, hardware engineers, and firmware engineers to understand the complex features and impact to System level/SOC environment
Developing verification strategy, infrastructure and needed improvements
Driving Pre and post Si verification closure to meet schedule with quality
Leading Post Si verification activities to drive triage with FW, SW, IP, SOC and various teams. Plug holes appropriately to improve quality of the IP
Working with each domain (sub-system) lead and guide them to get better quality and verification outcome
Automating workflows in a distributed compute environment
Helping management with risk assessment on features, quality, and schedules
This individual will work with engineering management to drive execution excellence, including key metrics - performance, schedule, cost, quality
Plan, Execute, Verify and Track new features at IP and SoC level
Desire and enthusiasm to grow into leadership role taking progressive responsibility over time
Aspiration to grow to technical lead responsible for project level design verification
Defines, plans and drives projects and program plans based on management and senior technical guidance
Possesses specialized knowledge plus a broader technical knowledge in areas outside his or her area of expertise
Has responsibility for projects or processes of significant technical importance and for results that cross engineering project areas
Initiates significant changes to existing processes and methods to improve project and team efficiencies