Low Power Design Verification Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Boxborough, MA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career. THE ROLE: The focus of this role is to develop, execute, debug tests and methodologies for SoC low power features. You will work closely with the Architecture, IP/SoC Design, Physical Design Teams, and Product Engineers to achieve first pass silicon success. THE PERSON: Join us if you have passion for modern, complex processor and SoC architectures, digital design and verification. We are looking for a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with engineers located in different sites/time zones. The ideal candidate for this role will possess strong analytical and problem solving skills, and are willing to learn and ready to take on challenges.

Requirements

SoC level ASIC verification experience
Hands on experience of Low Power design and verification methodologies (e.g., UPF, power domains, multi-voltage)
Proficient in debugging firmware and RTL code using simulation tools
Proficient in developing and using UVM based verification frameworks and testbenches, processes and flows in both Linux and Windows environments
Experienced with Assembly, Verilog, System Verilog, C, C++
Good understanding and hands-on experience in the UVM concepts
Bachelors, Masters or PHD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or relevant fields

Nice To Haves

Experience with multiple SoC tape-outs taken to production
NPU/AI processor knowledge
Automating workflows in a distributed compute environment
Good working knowledge of SystemC and TLM with some related experience
Scripting language experience: Perl, Python, Ruby, Makefile, shell preferred

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