Silicon Design Engineer

At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future. 

Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.

• →Collaborate with architects, hardware engineers, and firmware engineers to understand the new features to be verified 
• →Build test plan documentation, accounting for interactions with other features, the hardware, the firmware, and the software driver use cases 
• →Estimate the time required to write the new feature tests and any required changes to the test environment 
• →Build the directed and random verification tests 
• →Debug test failures to 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 or constrain random tests to meet the coverage requirements 

The focus of this role is to plan, build, and execute the verification of new and existing features for AMD’s graphics processor IP, resulting in no bugs in the final design.   

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. 

• Proficient in IP level ASIC verification 
• 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++   
• Graphics pipeline knowledge 
• Developing UVM based verification frameworks and testbenches, processes and flows 
• Automating workflows in a distributed compute environment.   

• Exposure to simulation profile, efficiency improvement, acceleration, HLS tools/process 
• Strong background in the C++ language, preferably on Linux with exposure to Windows platform 
• Good understanding and hands-on experience in the UVM concepts and SystemVerilog language 
• Good working knowledge of SystemC and TLM with some related experience.   
• Scripting language experience: Perl, Ruby, Makefile, shell preferred.   

• Exposure to leadership or mentorship is an asset 
• Desirable assets with prior exposure to video codec system or other multimedia solutions.   

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering 

Location: Markham, ON

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.