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CPU Design Verification Engineer
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Verifies next-generation CPU designs by translating microarchitectural features into verification plans, analyzing RTL, building and debugging testbenches, and driving assigned areas to coverage closure. Works across design, verification and emulation teams.
About this role
ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.
At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future.
Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.
THE ROLE:
THE PERSON:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop comprehensive verification plans for new CPU features and microarchitectural implementations.Analyze register-transfer level designs to understand functionality, interactions, and verification requirements.Create and maintain functional and performance verification tests.Develop, enhance, and debug verification environments and testbench components.Drive assigned verification areas from planning through design closure.Perform coverage analysis, identify verification gaps, and implement strategies to address them.Diagnose complex design and verification issues and drive them to resolution.Collaborate with CPU design, verification, testbench, and hardware emulation teams.Improve verification methodologies, debugging capabilities, and engineering workflows.Provide technical guidance and support to partner engineering teams.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Experience with CPU design verification and modern verification methodologies.Strong understanding of CPU architecture and microarchitecture, including hardware implementation and interactions between CPU blocks.Experience analyzing register-transfer level designs and debugging complex verification failures.Experience with SystemVerilog and Universal Verification Methodology environments.Experience programming in C or C++.Experience with functional coverage, code coverage, and verification closure.Familiarity with verification testbench development and infrastructure.Familiarity with hardware emulation is preferred.Knowledge of formal verification techniques is beneficial.Experience applying artificial intelligence tools or workflows to engineering activities is desired.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
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