IP Design Engineer

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THE ROLE: 

We are looking for a self-motivated senior design engineer to be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD's abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market. As a key contributor, you will focus on RTL design and validation of high-speed interfaces such as chip-to-chip interconnect, both on system and on package, and highly configurable mufti-protocol PHYs. Continuous technical innovation to increase productivity, to heighten quality of results, and to foster career development is integral to the role. 

THE PERSON:  

You demonstrate a strong passion for digital design, are a collaborative team player, and possess excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. You are eager to learn and take full ownership of challenges.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Perform RTL design of the digital components.
• Experience with designing IPs for FPGAs (AMD/Altera).
• Good knowledge of FPGA tool chains (Vivado/Quartus).
• Develop and validate timing constraints involving multiple clock domains while working with physical design to harden IP.
• Help lead and mentor other engineers to achieve project goals and organizational growth.
• Work with a functional (design) verification team to meet coverage and quality standards.
• Analyze/fix Lint and CDC/RDC errors of the components.
• Guarantee quality/timely deliverables meeting project’s schedule.
• Help to improve and automate design process.
• Support post-silicon product bring-up/debug.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

• Strong experience in designing digital components for high performance, low power SOC/FPGA.
• Design of digital circuits and components using Verilog/System Verilog
• Creating and maintenance of timing constraints for complex multi-clock designs.
• Debugging in digital and mixed-signal simulation environment.
• Power-optimization of digital designs.
• Multi-clock domain designs.
• Experience/Knowledge of DDR Memory Controllers and Calibration algorithms is a plus.
• Logic synthesis, timing closure, logical equivalence checking and ECOs.
• Scripting languages such as Perl, Tcl, or Python.
• Collaboration with verification team.
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Excellent technical communications. Ability to produce technical documentation.
• Exhibit strong ownership of tasks and responsibilities.

  ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:  

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering with relevant industry experience

LOCATION:

San Jose

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.