Design Verification Lead

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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. You will participate in design verification methodology definition as well as contribute to design verification infrastructure that facilitates maximum re-use of components, improves productivity, and guarantees to the maximum extent possible, bug-free designs. 

THE PERSON: 

You have a passion for 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

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Collaborate with architects, hardware and firmware engineers to understand the features to be verified
• Take ownership of different verification tasks
• Define test plans, test benches, and tests using System Verilog and UVM
• Debug RTL simulations and work with HW and FW development teams to verify fixes
• Review functional and code coverage metrics to meet the coverage requirements
• Develop and improve existing verification flows and environments
• Provide technical support to other teams 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

• Proficient in IP level ASIC verification 
• Experience identifying bugs in architecture, functionality and performance with strong overall debug and analytical skills
• Exposure to design and verification tools (VCS or equivalent simulation tools, debug tools like Debussy/DVE)      
• Working knowledge of Formal Verification methods and apps ( FPV, CC, Sequence equivalence, etc.)
• Proficient in debugging firmware and RTL code using simulation tools  
• Proficient in using UVM testbenches and working in Linux and Windows environments 
• Experienced with Verilog, System Verilog, C, and C++   
• Developing UVM based verification frameworks and testbenches, processes and flows 
• Automating workflows in a distributed compute environment.   
• Good understanding and hands-on experience in the UVM concepts and SystemVerilog language 
• Good to have : prior experience with USB / PCIE / UFS Controllers.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:  

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering 

LOCATION: Santa Clara, Folsom, CA

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