FPGA Place & Route Software Engineer

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The Role

AMD is looking for a specialized software engineer to create innovative solutions for FPGA-based emulation and prototyping platforms. You will be part of a core team that works closely with industry leading partners on improving FPGA compilation for emulation and prototyping platform designs.

The Person

The ideal candidate should be passionate about creating a better FPGA compile solution for AMD’s partners in the emulation and prototyping industry. Must be able to work on a range of different problems. Must be able to communicate effectively and work with different teams across AMD.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with AMD’s partners to understand the limitations in current AMD place and route solutions for emulation and prototyping FPGA designs.
• Triage designs from AMD’s partners to find root cause of timing closure failures, high compile time and memory usage.
• Apply knowledge of FPGA place and route algorithms to identify areas of improvement for AMD tools.
• Work closely with R&D team to implement tool improvements that help AMD’s partners achieve their design closure, compile time and memory goals.
• Work with AMD’s architecture team to develop tools support for next generation FPGAs.
  
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Strong object-oriented programming experience (C preferred)
• Hands-on experience with FPGA implementation tools such as Xilinx Vivado or Intel Quartus
• Solid understanding of FPGA place-and-route(P&R) algorithms and optimization techniques
• Experience with timing closure methodologies and performance tuning
• Ability to communicate technical findings clearly across engineering and partner teams
  
  
  

Academic Credentials

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
  
  
  

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.