LEAD PLATFORM EMULATION ENGINEER
AMD · Posted Oct 14
High-performance processors, graphics cards, data center solutions, and AI accelerators
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About the role
AMD designs and develops processors, SOCs, and other semiconductor products spanning AI, healthcare, scientific discovery, and everyday computing technologies. The Platform Emulation team plans, builds, and executes verification, validation/emulation, and debug of new and existing features for AMD's SOCs, with the goal of delivering bug-free final SOC designs along with firmware and BIOS. This senior lead role drives emulation methodologies, SOC design models, and test architecture for full-chip SOC and hybrid models, working closely with architects, hardware, RTL, firmware, and business unit teams.
What you will do
- Collaborate with architects, hardware engineers, and firmware engineers to understand the new features to be verified
- Drive Emulation Methodologies, SOC Design Model and Test Architecture for full chip SOC and hybrid models
- Build test plan documentation, accounting for interactions with other features, the hardware, the firmware, and the software driver use cases
- Estimate the time required to write the new feature tests and any required changes to the test environment
- Build the directed Pre-Silicon Emulation tests
- Debug test failures to determine the root cause; work with RTL and firmware engineers to resolve design defects and correct any test or infra issues
- Responsible for writing directed tests to verify features in a co-simulated and emulated/FPGA hardware environment
- Responsible for writing monitors and checkers to support end-to-end firmware/hardware validation
- Responsible for running emulator workloads to test new features and debug technical issues using logs, waveform dumps and RTL debug
- Use AI for hardware debug, improve execution and emulation capacity efficiency and automation
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer/Electronics/Electrical Engineering with 18+ years of experience
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with BIOS/OS bring up on full X86 SOC emulation platform
- Proficient in IP level ASIC verification, experience working with CPU, GPU, and Memory subsystem
- Proficient in debugging firmware and RTL code using simulation tools
- Good understanding of PCIe/USB/Ethernet standards; safety concepts/IPs
- Must have hands-on experience on Zebu/Palladium/Veloce platform to bring-up SOC
- SOC design model build experience
- Experienced with Verilog, System Verilog, C, and C++
- Experience in writing and debugging testbenches
- Scripting language experience: Perl, Ruby, Makefile, shell preferred
- Experience on debugging SOC IO interfaces with Transactor solutions in Emulation platform
- Think differently and out of the box to stress the DUT in Emulation platform and verify it in efficient way
- Should be open to learning verification methodologies and working closely with design, verification, validation, architecture and firmware teams
- Excellent communication, management, and presentation skills
- Adept at collaboration among top-thinkers and senior architects with strong interpersonal skills to work across teams in different geographies
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About AMD
AMD is a global semiconductor company that designs high-performance central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and adaptive processors for data centers, personal computers, gaming consoles, and embedded systems. The company specializes in advanced computing solutions and AI accelerators, positioning itself as a major leader in modern high-performance and artificial intelligence hardware. Through strategic developments and acquisitions, AMD continues to expand its ecosystem across cloud infrastructure, enterprise computing, and physical AI.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 31000 employees
- Founded
- 1969-05-01
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
- 2007-11-16Post Ipo
Leadership
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Solutions Business Group
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