CPU Core Design Verification Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Fishkill, NY

14h

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: As a member of the Hudson Valley Design Center Cores team, you will help bring to life cutting-edge designs. As a member of the Physical Design team, you will work closely with the architecture, IP design, front-end design/integration teams, and product engineers to achieve first pass silicon success. THE PERSON: You have excellent communication and presentation skills, demonstrated through technical publications, presentations, trainings, executive briefings, etc. You are highly adept at collaboration among top-thinkers and engineers alike, ready to mentor and guide, and help to elevate the knowledge and skills of the team around you.

Requirements

Excellent communication and presentation skills, demonstrated through technical publications, presentations, trainings, executive briefings, etc.
Highly adept at collaboration among top-thinkers and engineers alike, ready to mentor and guide, and help to elevate the knowledge and skills of the team around you.
Experience and understanding of flow development and scripting.
Strong Technical problem and debugging solving.
Understanding of Place & Route, Timing Analysis, Clock Tree Distribution, Physical Verification, Chip Integration.
Experience with Tcl, Perl, and Shell scripting.
10 years experience in Physical Design and PD Team Leadership
Multiple Tape Out Cycles
Test Site Project Experience

Nice To Haves

Outstanding foundation in Systems & SoC architecture, with expertise in one or more of the following: CPU or GPU, Memory sub-system, Fabrics, CPU/GPU coherency, Multimedia, I/O subsystems, Clocks, Resets, Virtualization and Security
Experience analyzing CPU, GPU or System-level Micro-Architectural features to identify performance bottlenecks within different workloads
Demonstrated expertise in power management microarchitecture, low power design and power optimization, along with power impact at architecture, logic design, and circuit levels
Excellent communication, management, and presentation skills.
Adept at collaboration among top-thinkers and senior architects with strong interpersonal skills to work across teams in different geographies
Working experience on CAD tools from Synopsys, Cadence and/or Mentor Graphics required.
Must be a self-starter and able to independently and efficiently drive challenging and time critical tasks to on-time completion.

Responsibilities

Define product features and capabilities, close architecture, and micro-architecture requirements, drive technical specifications for SoC and IP blocks to meet those requirements, and provide technical direction to execution teams
Work cross functionally with IP/Domain architects to identify and assess complex technical issues/risks and develop architectural solutions to achieve product requirements
Bring deep knowledge and experience in Physical design and apply them to large, challenging, leading-edge designs to ensure high quality on time delivery.
Bring significant experience in effective team leadership to help mentor, coach and grow the HVDC Physical Design Team with an emphasis on positive influence on team morale.
Technically manage different aspects of Physical Design including Chip Level Floor planning, Bus / Pin Planning, Clock Tree Synthesis, Placement, Optimization, Routing, Parasitic Extraction, Static Timing Analysis, IR drop analysis, Physical Verification and Sign Off.
Experience and understanding of flow development and scripting.
Strong Technical problem and debugging solving.