Emulation Verification Engineer

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING 

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.  Together, we advance your career.  

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. The Verification Engineering team furthers and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.

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/timezones. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Come join the team responsible for driving AMD Core’s Shift-Left strategies 
• Interact with multiple stakeholders (firmware/BIOS, RTL designers, DV, system architects) to plan, create, execute, and debug core on emulators
• Defining and implementing test plans including stimulus, checking and functional coverage plans
• Developing test benches and test bench components in C
• Responsible for writing monitors and checkers to support end-to-end core emulation infrastructure
• Debugging regression fails and fixing verification issues or working with designers to fix design bugs
• Assist with silicon observations often requiring replication of behaviors in simulation to root cause
• Responsible for running emulator workloads to test all new features
• Create hardware emulation build to verify the IP functional performance 
• Maintain and improve current hardware emulation environment to speed up the runtime performance and improve the debug facility 
• Provide technical support to other teams 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Experience with FPGA and/or emulation platforms (ZeBu, HAPs, Veloce)
• Experience with FPGA and/or emulation platforms (ZeBu, HAPs, Veloce)
• Scripting with Perl or equivalent languages
• Experience debugging failures using waveform viewers, log files, and microcode trace dumps
• Knowledge of UEFI, core-boot, Linux, Windows Operating Systems
• Knowledge of x86 and/or ARM SoC Architecture
• Coding in x86 Assembly language
• Strong knowledge of microprocessor architecture (x86 preferred)

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelors or Masters degree in EE, CE, or CS preferred

LOCATION: Austin, Tx

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.