Sr. Verification Design Engineer

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SENIOR VERIFICATION DESIGN ENGINEER
THE ROLE:

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.

THE PERSON:

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.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 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 hardware features/components
• Estimate the time required to write the new feature tests and any required changes to the test environment, and drive and own tracked related activities
• Build the directed and random verification tests
• Debug test failures to determine the root cause; work with RTL and stakeholders 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
• Mentor junior engineers

Required Experience

• Minimum of 3 years experience in Digital Design Verification
• Strong skills with System Verilog and UVM. Good skills with Verilog.
• Exposure to both maintaining an existing Verification Environment as well as creating one from scratch.
• Experience with functional verification tools by VCS, optional with Cadence, Mentor Graphics.
• Experience delivering design features/functionalities on all stages: specs, test plan, enablement, functional/code coverage closure
• High degree of ownership and drive capabilities, with limited assistance needed
• Experience working in a Unix/Linux environment.
• Good scripting skills (Perl, Shell, Ruby).
• Exposure to mentorship
• Good computer architecture, cache coherency knowledge

Nice To Have

• Experience working with complex designs (not just I2C and other similar designs)
• Exposure to simulation profile, efficiency improvement, acceleration
• Exposure to automating workflows in a distributed compute environment.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering

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