Microprocessor Vlsi Physical Design Engineer

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Fort Collins, CO · Engineering

This role is for a VLSI physical design engineer at AMD, focusing on CPU and cache design for next-generation products. The engineer will be a technical lead, responsible for optimizing power, performance, and area, solving design and tool problems, and mentoring junior engineers. Experience in deep submicron processes, computer architecture, and various VLSI design stages is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Technical lead for high-speed VLSI design in deep submicron processes.
  2. Work closely with RTL and physical designers across multiple sites to optimize power, performance, area, and schedule.
  3. Solve design and tool problems requiring ground-breaking approaches and champion innovation across the organization. Create technical presentations for peers and management.
  4. Guide and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Required

  • BS/MS in EE, CS, CSE (or similar), plus 8+ years hardware design experience
  • strong analytical thinking
  • problem-solving skills
  • excellent attention to details
  • self-motivation
  • commitment to meeting deadlines
  • creativity and innovation
  • excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • teamwork
  • high-speed VLSI design
  • computer architecture
  • hardware concepts
  • design tradeoffs
  • Chip Level Floor planning
  • Bus / Pin Planning
  • Clock Tree Synthesis
  • Placement
  • Optimization
  • Routing
  • Parasitic Extraction
  • Static Timing Analysis
  • IR drop analysis
  • electromigration
  • Physical Verification
  • Sign Off
  • complex Verilog RTL
  • digital circuits
  • high speed flops
  • synchronizers
  • level shifters
  • SRAM

Nice to have

  • Perl
  • C
  • tcl

What the JD emphasized

  • long timelines
  • self-motivation
  • commitment to meeting deadlines
  • pushing the envelope on chip performance
  • status quo must be challenged
  • creativity and innovation
  • excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • teamwork is also vital