CPU Cores Design Engineer

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THE ROLE: 

The focus of this role is to maintain existing and plan, build, and execute new features in the area of power delivery and reliability for CPU cores.  

THE PERSON:  

You have a passion for modern, complex processor architecture, digital design, and verification in general. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with other engineers located in different sites/time zones. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Understand, develop ability to maintain, existing features in the power delivery, thermal management, and reliability domains for CPU Cores.
• Collaborate with architects, hardware engineers; power integrity, thermal management & reliability engineers to maintain existing features and develop new features in AMD CPU Cores.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

• Experience in IP level silicon design methodologies.

• Strong EE fundamentals.
• Experience with Verilog, System Verilog, C, and C   
• Experience with circuit and finite element simulators.
• Automating workflows in a distributed compute environment.   

• Experience in the C language, preferably on Linux with exposure to Windows platform 
• Scripting language experience: Perl, Ruby, Makefile, shell preferred.   

• Exposure to leadership or mentorship is an asset 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:  

• Ph.D. or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering 

LOCATION:

Santa Clara, CA; Austin, TX; Fort Collins, CO

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