Silicon Design Engineer

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · San Jose, CA · Engineering

This role is for a Silicon Design Engineer at AMD, focusing on the research, design, development, and testing of electronic components and systems for semiconductor manufacturing. Responsibilities include defining architecture, logic design, verification, and contributing to complex integrated circuit layouts, evaluating process flows, and ensuring performance and power efficiency. The role requires experience in various hardware design and verification methodologies, languages, and tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Research, design, develop, and/or test electronic components and systems for semiconductor and related device manufacturing, employing knowledge of electronic theory.
  2. Perform definition, design, verification, and/or documentation for ASIC development.
  3. Determine architecture design, logic design, and/or system simulation.
  4. Create various test cases that enhances the coverage.
  5. Contribute to the development of multidimensional designs involving the layout of complex integrated circuits.

Skills

Required

  • Object Oriented design
  • Formal verification
  • Post-silicon validation
  • Hardware verification
  • SOC/system architecture
  • RTL Design / coding
  • Verilog/VHDL
  • Functional verification of microprocessors
  • Design flows and methodologies used for chip verification
  • ASIC design tools (synthesis, simulation, equivalence checking, and static timing analysis)
  • Unix/Linux environments
  • SV, UVM, and Python
  • CPU architecture