Lead Dft Architect

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India · Engineering

This role is for a Lead DFT Architect at AMD, focusing on System Architecture for SoC and IP blocks. The position involves defining product features, driving technical specifications, and ensuring alignment across hardware, firmware, BIOS, and software. The candidate will work cross-functionally with IP architects, manage technical issues, and support design, verification, and post-silicon teams. Expertise in CPU/GPU architecture, memory subsystems, fabrics, coherency, multimedia, I/O, clocks, resets, virtualization, and security is preferred, along with experience in power management and performance analysis.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define product features and capabilities, close architecture, and micro-architecture requirements, drive technical specifications for SoC and IP blocks to meet those requirements, and provide technical direction to execution teams
  2. Comprehend the SOC as a complete system which includes HW (Silicon), FW, BIOS & SW and ensure that FW, BIOS & SW are aligned to enable all features, optimizing for performance and power
  3. Work cross functionally with IP/Domain architects to identify and assess complex technical issues/risks and develop architectural solutions to achieve product requirements
  4. As an overall product owner, responsible for architecture analysis and technical solutions for marketing/feature change requests
  5. Work closely with Design teams for Area and Floorplan refinement, Verification Test plan reviews, Timing targets, Emulation plans, Pre-Si bug resolution and Performance/Power Verification sign offs

Skills

Required

  • System Architecture
  • SoC Architecture
  • Power, Performance, and Area (PPA) optimization
  • Technical specifications
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Problem-solving
  • Communication skills
  • Presentation skills

Nice to have

  • CPU or GPU architecture
  • Memory sub-system
  • Fabrics
  • CPU/GPU coherency
  • Multimedia
  • I/O subsystems
  • Clocks
  • Resets
  • Virtualization
  • Security
  • Performance bottleneck analysis
  • Power management microarchitecture
  • Low power design
  • Power optimization
  • Interpersonal skills