Lead Ip Verification Engineer

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Hyderabad, India · Engineering

Lead IP Verification Engineer at AMD, responsible for planning, building, and executing verification of graphics processor IP features to ensure no bugs in the final design. This role involves collaboration with architects and engineers, test plan development, test building, debugging, and coverage analysis.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with architects, hardware engineers, and firmware engineers to understand the new features to be verified
  2. Build test plan documentation, accounting for interactions with other features, the hardware, the firmware, and the software driver use cases
  3. Estimate the time required to write the new feature tests and any required changes to the test environment
  4. Build the directed and random verification tests
  5. Debug test failures to determine the root cause; work with RTL and firmware engineers to resolve design defects and correct any test issues

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • Strong knowledge in AXI, ACE Protocols
  • Strong Knowledge in any of Ethernet, PCIe, USB
  • Developing UVM based verification frameworks and testbenches, processes and flows
  • Automating workflows in a distributed compute environment
  • 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
  • Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering with 7+Yrs of exp

Nice to have

  • Exposure to simulation profile, efficiency improvement, acceleration, HLS tools/process
  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • no bugs in the final design