Sr. Silicon Design Engineer

AMD - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

San Jose, CA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Sr. Silicon Design Engineer at AMD is responsible for developing pre-silicon readiness and post-silicon plans to validate specific IPs and functional blocks within the System on Chip (SoC). This role involves participating in system-level testing, including fault simulation and functional test development, as well as assisting in post-silicon validation activities. The engineer will maintain a library of verification and testing components targeting ARM processors and Xilinx/AMD Micro Blaze, applying engineering principles and best practices to design and test various products.

Responsibilities

• Develop pre-silicon readiness and post-silicon plans to validate specific IPs/functional blocks within the SoC.
• Participate in SOC system level test work including fault simulation, functional test development, system boot sequence, system random test, and functional failure diagnosis.
• Assist in bring-up and test activities for post-silicon validation.
• Maintain and document a library of SOC verification, testing, and diagnostics components/tools/evaluation card targeting ARM processors and Xilinx/AMD Micro Blaze.
• Utilize knowledge of computers and electronics, including circuit boards, processors, chips, and electronic equipment, as well as knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles.

Requirements

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in logic and circuit design, CMOS transistor design, CAD tools, SOC and System architecture, RTL Design and coding, Verilog, VHDL, or System Verilog, Graphics IP architecture verification, functional verification of microprocessors, ASIC Design, and design flows and methodologies used for chip verification.

Benefits

• Employee stock purchase plan
• Annual bonus or sales incentive
• Competitive benefits package