Silicon Design Verification Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•San Jose, CA

1d•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: 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 Verification Engineering team furthers and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes 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/time zones. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems.

Requirements

Experienced with development of UVM, OVM, VMM and/or System Verilog, Verilog test benches and usage of simulation tools/debug environments like Synopsys VCS, Cadence IES to test block level/full chip SOCs and FPGAs.
Strong understanding of state of the art of verification techniques, including assertion and coverage-driven verification.
Strong understanding of different phases of ASIC and/or full custom chip development is required.
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering

Nice To Haves

Experience in block level NOC (Net work on Chip) verification is a plus.
Verification Experience in protocols like AXI3/4, DDR4/5, HBM, PCIe, Processors, Graphics is a plus.
Experience as a verification architect, establishing the verification methodology, tools and infrastructure for high performance FPGAs, SOCs and/or VLSI designs is a plus.
Experience with gate level simulation, power verification, reset verification, contention checking, abstraction techniques is a plus.
Familiarity with verification management tools as well as understanding of database management particularly as it pertains to regression management is a plus.
Experience with formal property checking tools such as Cadence (IEV), Jasper and Synopsys (VC-Formal, Magellan) is a plus.

Responsibilities

Plan verification of complex digital design blocks by fully understanding the architecture and design specifications
Interact with architects and design engineers to create a comprehensive verification test plan
Design testbenches in System Verilog and UVM to complete verification of the design in an efficient manner
Create and enhance constrained-random and/or directed verification environments, and formally verify designs with System Verilog Assertions (SVA) and industry leading formal tools
Debug tests with design engineers to deliver functionally correct design blocks
Identify and write coverage measures for stimulus quality improvements
Perform coverage analysis to identify verification holes and achieve closure on coverage metrics