Emulation Verification Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Austin, TX

7h•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. 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. 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/timezones. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems.

Requirements

Experience with FPGA and/or emulation platforms (ZeBu, HAPs, Veloce)
Scripting with Perl or equivalent languages
Experience debugging failures using waveform viewers, log files, and microcode trace dumps
Knowledge of UEFI, core-boot, Linux, Windows Operating Systems
Knowledge of x86 and/or ARM SoC Architecture
Coding in x86 Assembly language
Strong knowledge of microprocessor architecture (x86 preferred)
Bachelors or Masters degree in EE, CE, or CS preferred

Responsibilities

Come join the team responsible for driving AMD Core’s Shift-Left strategies
Interact with multiple stakeholders (firmware/BIOS, RTL designers, DV, system architects) to plan, create, execute, and debug core on emulators
Defining and implementing test plans including stimulus, checking and functional coverage plans
Developing test benches and test bench components in C++
Responsible for writing monitors and checkers to support end-to-end core emulation infrastructure
Debugging regression fails and fixing verification issues or working with designers to fix design bugs
Assist with silicon observations often requiring replication of behaviors in simulation to root cause
Responsible for running emulator workloads to test all new features
Create hardware emulation build to verify the IP functional performance
Maintain and improve current hardware emulation environment to speed up the runtime performance and improve the debug facility
Provide technical support to other teams