SOC / IP Design Verification Engineer

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THE ROLE: 

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the AMD SOC Verification Team as Senior Verification Engineer. The candidate will have an opportunity to work on state-of-the-art verification environment using UVM verification methodology and C. Besides owning block level test bench, the candidate will have opportunity to work on sub system level verification and participate in silicon bring up.

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. 

We are looking for a dynamic candidate who will have great opportunity to work on the state of the art products with leading verification methodology using UVM. Take your current verification  expertise and apply that to state of the are data center products involving complex protocols like PCIE, CXL, networking etc. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Create block level verification plan, test plans and full chip test plan
• Develop block level test bench and tests in UVM methodology including scoreboard.
• Work on subsystem level verification using UVM and C.
• Work with designers to get the coverage closure
• Port the block level tests to full chip test bench
• Integrate VIPs as needed
• Work with software, validation and emulation teams as needed
• Work on performance verification.
• Work on other aspects of verification like CDC, gate simulation
• Work on power aware verification using UPF
• Work on lab bring up and silicon validation
• Provide technical support to other teams 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Prior experience in architecting and developing self-checking constrained random verification environment using System Verilog and UVM verification methodology
• Execution of test plan, debugging failures, write functional coverage objects and review the code coverage and function coverage with design team
• Good understanding of object-oriented programming concepts
• Prior experience with PCIE Protocol Gen5 and above
• Prior experience in verifying is system/sub system level involving multiple blocks
• Prior experience with protocols such as AXI, APB, AHB etc
• Programming in scripting languages like Python, TCL and Perl
• Excellent communication skills
• Good problem-solving skills and analytical ability
• Familiarity with EDA tools for simulation, debugging, coverage analysis, CDC, LINT etc.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering 

LOCATION: San Jose, CA

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