Emulation Verification Engineer

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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. The Verification/Emulation Engineering team furthers and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.

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:

• 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
• Collaborate with architects, hardware engineers, and firmware engineers to understand the new features to be verified
• Debug test failures to determine the root cause; work with RTL and firmware engineers to resolve design defects and correct any test issues

• Provide technical support to other teams

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experienced with FPGA and/or emulation platforms (ZeBu, HAPs, Veloce)
• Experienced with Verilog, System Verilog, C, and C++
• Experienced debugging failures using waveform viewers, log files, and microcode trace dumps
• Strong background in the C++ language, preferably on Linux with exposure to Windows platform
• Automating workflows in a distributed compute environment
• Knowledge of UEFI, core-boot, Linux, Windows Operating Systems
• Knowledge of x86 and/or ARM SoC Architecture
• Coding in x86 Assembly language
• Proficient in debugging firmware and RTL code using simulation tools

• Proficient in using UVM testbenches and working in Linux and Windows environment s

• Scripting language experience: Perl, Python, Makefile, shell preferred

• Exposure to leadership or mentorship is an asset

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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