Sr. Silicon Design Engineer Performance Architecture

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Austin, TX · Engineering

This role is for a Sr. Silicon Design Engineer focused on Performance Architecture at AMD. The responsibilities include developing and maintaining tests for functional and performance verification at the core level, building testbench components, creating hardware emulation builds, and providing technical support. While the company mentions AI and data centers, the core responsibilities of this role are in silicon design and verification, not directly building or researching AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop/Maintain tests for functional verification and performance verification at the core level
  2. Build testbench components to support the next generation IP
  3. Maintain or improve current test libraries to support IP level testing
  4. Create hardware emulation build to verify the IP functional performance
  5. Maintain and improve current hardware emulation environment to speed up the runtime performance and improve the debug facility

Skills

Required

  • modern, complex processor architecture
  • digital design
  • verification
  • C/C++
  • SystemVerilog
  • UVM

Nice to have

  • Computing/Graphics background
  • OpenGL/OpenCL/D3D programming