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 server, client, and gaming products. The engineer will be a technical lead, optimizing power, performance, and area, and solving complex design and tool problems. The role requires strong analytical skills, experience in deep sub-micron processes, and knowledge of various VLSI design stages.

What you'd actually do

  1. Technical lead for high-speed VLSI design in deep sub-micron 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
  • 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
  • Verilog RTL
  • digital circuits
  • high speed flops
  • synchronizers
  • level shifters
  • SRAM

Nice to have

  • Perl
  • C
  • tcl

What the JD emphasized

  • push the envelope on chip performance
  • status quo must be challenged on every program
  • ground-breaking approaches