AMD
Staff Design Verification Engineer
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Staff Verification Design Engineer
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 plan, build, and execute the verification of new and existing features for AMD’s microprocessor IP, ensuring no bugs in the final design.
The Person
You have a passion for modern, complex processor architecture, digital design, and verification in general. You are:
- A team player with excellent communication skills
- Experienced collaborating with engineers across different sites and time zones
- Strongly analytical with exceptional problem-solving skills
- Willing to learn and ready to take on challenges
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Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with architects, hardware engineers, and firmware engineers to understand new features for verification
- Write and document test plans, accounting for interactions with other features, hardware, firmware, and software driver use cases
- Estimate time required to write new feature tests and any required changes to the test environment
- Build directed and random verification tests
- Debug test failures:
- 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
- Constrain random tests to meet coverage requirements
- Develop an automated regression infrastructure for functional verification of high-speed microprocessor designs
- Develop interface assertions and collaborate closely with the formal verification team
Preferred Experience
- Proficient in IP-level ASIC verification
- Experience with memory subsystems (a plus)
- Proficient in debugging RTL and firmware code using simulation tools
- Experience with C++ test benches, Linux, and Windows environments
- Familiarity with:
- Verilog
- System Verilog
- C
- C++
- Knowledge of CPU pipeline architecture
- Experience automating workflows in a distributed compute environment
- Exposure to:
- Simulation profiles
- Efficiency improvement plans
- Acceleration and HLS tools/processes
- Strong background in C++ (ideally Linux with Windows exposure)
- Proficiency in SystemVerilog with hands-on experience
- Scripting language experience: (preferred)
- Perl
- Ruby
- Makefiles
- Shell
- Exposure to leadership or mentorship (ideal)
- Prior experience with:
- Memory subsystem verification
- Other CPU unit verification
- 3+ years of experience in design verification
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Academic Credentials
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in:
- Computer Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
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