Sr. Silicon Design Engineer

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Fort Collins, CO · Engineering

This role is for a Sr. Silicon Design Engineer at AMD, focusing on the research, design, development, and testing of electronic components and systems for semiconductor manufacturing. The responsibilities include ASIC development, system simulation, verification architecture, and debugging integration issues. The role requires a Master's degree and one year of experience in high-speed VLSI design, physical design flow, IC design, data flow management, and programming in languages like Perl, C, Python, or Tcl.

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, including mechanical detail design.
  3. Determine architecture design, logic design, and/or system simulation.
  4. Develop and maintain block level IP and MP subsystem verification architecture, testbenches, test methodology and infrastructure.
  5. Debug and solve integration issues with SoC Integration and SoC DV teams.

Skills

Required

  • High-speed VLSI design
  • Key stages in the Physical Design flow of VLSI chip design, including Chip Level Floor planning, Bus / Pin Planning, Clock Tree Synthesis, Placement, Optimization, Routing, Parasitic Extraction, Static Timing Analysis, IR drop analysis, electromigration, Physical Verification and Sign Off
  • Designing, developing, and verifying integrated circuits (ICs) and micro-architectures for digital systems, such as CPUs or GPUs
  • Managing data flow, timing, and storage across various parts of an IC using high-speed flip-flops (flops), synchronizers, level shifters, and Static Random Access Memory (SRAM)
  • Using data structures to organize and manage complex design data within EDA tools and custom script
  • Programming in Perl, C, Python or tcl