Design Verification Lead

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THE ROLE: 

We are looking for an adaptive, self-motivative design verification engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD's abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market. You will participate in design verification methodology definition as well as contribute to design verification infrastructure that facilitates maximum re-use of components, improves productivity, and guarantees to the maximum extent possible, bug-free designs. 

THE PERSON: 

You have a passion for 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:  

• Collaborate with architects, hardware and firmware engineers to understand the features to be verified
• Take ownership of different verification tasks
• Define test plans, test benches, and tests using System Verilog and UVM
• Debug RTL simulations and work with HW and FW development teams to verify fixes
• Review functional and code coverage metrics to meet the coverage requirements
• Develop and improve existing verification flows and environments
• Provide technical support to other teams 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

• Proficient in IP level ASIC verification 
• Experience identifying bugs in architecture, functionality and performance with strong overall debug and analytical skills
• Exposure to design and verification tools (VCS or equivalent simulation tools, debug tools like Debussy/DVE)      
• Working knowledge of Formal Verification methods and apps ( FPV, CC, Sequence equivalence, etc.)
• Proficient in debugging firmware and RTL code using simulation tools  
• Proficient in using UVM testbenches and working in Linux and Windows environments 
• Experienced with Verilog, System Verilog, C, and C    
• Developing UVM based verification frameworks and testbenches, processes and flows 
• Automating workflows in a distributed compute environment.   
• Good understanding and hands-on experience in the UVM concepts and SystemVerilog language 
• Good to have : prior experience with USB / PCIE / UFS  Controllers.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:  

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering 

LOCATION: Santa Clara, Folsom, CA

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