RTL Power Management 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

The focus of this role is to plan, build, and execute the verification of new and existing features for AMD’s graphics processor IP, resulting in no bugs in the final design.  

 

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: 

• Own the design and implementation of blocks to meet functional, timing, area and power requirements
• Guide and review verification for these blocks
• Design and implement logic functions that enable efficient test and debug
• Implement automation to increase design team efficiency
• Perform vector-based and vector-less power estimation for different use case scenarios and analyze results to identify areas for improvement.
• Drive static and dynamic power analysis and optimization for complex SoCs and IP blocks.
• Drive low-power design strategies.
• Power domain/island creation (with UPF).
• Develop and maintain power analysis flows using industry-standard EDA tools and emerging, cutting-edge methodologies.
• Correlate RTL power estimates with gate-level and post-layout power results.
  
  
  

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Strong front-end RTL engineering background
• Expertise with low-power design methodologies and trade-offs.
• Hands-on expertise with EDA tools such as PrimeTime, PrimePower, Power Artist.
• Experience designing with multiple power domains and islands using UPF.
• Strong communication skills, able to summarize complex problems for executives as well as drill down to details with architects and engineers
• Strong analytic and problem solving skills including the ability to analyze current behavior, identify potential areas for improvement, and design of experiments
• Experience with Arm architecture and APB, AXI, CHI protocols
• Experience with design reuse, including RTL, constraints, and waivers
• Experience with SoC level design integration
• Experience with automation using scripting techniques such as PERL, Python, or Tcl
• Experience with timing constraints and timing exceptions
• Experience running standard quality checks such as LINT and CDC
• Experience designing with multiple power domains including writing UPF
• Must be a self-starter and self-motivated
  
  
  

 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering
  
  
  

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.