PLATFORM EMULATIION 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.

Platform Emulatiion Engineer

THE ROLE:

We are looking for an adaptive, self-motivative platform emulation/validation engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMDs abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market. The Emulation 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architects, hardware engineers, and firmware engineers to understand the new features to be verified
• 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
• Develope 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
  
  
  

• 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/IP
• Must have hands-on experience on Zebu/Palladium/Veloce platform to bring-up SOC
• SOC design model build experience
• Must have experience with Verilog, System Verilog, C, and C++
• Scripting language experience: Perl, Ruby, Makefile, shell preferred
• Experience in writing and debugging testbenches
• 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
  
  
  

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering/Electronics-VLSI Engineering with 4+ years of industry experience