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Emulation Methodology Engineer

THE ROLE:

As a member of the VBU team, focus on various aspects of VBU charter i.e., “Develop and drive industry leading pre-silicon system modeling solutions and methodologies in collaboration with AMD engineering teams and industry partners, to advance product time to market”.

THE PERSON: A successful candidate will be having background in verification and emulation background with strong technical experience in verification and emulation. They will collaborate cross-functionally at all levels – Senior members to junior members. The candidate will be detail-oriented, independent, and possessing good communication and problem-solving skills.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with customer teams across AMD’s business units to enable the recommended methodologies, as well as improve execution and efficiency.
• Support and development as needed of emulation build and regress infrastructure and continuous Integration methodologies
• Drive standardization and automation across business units as well as technology platforms.
• Triage failures with design, verification, firmware, software, and emulation teams
• Research and enable new tools and infrastructure to support emulation activities.
• Develop scripts/tools to parse data from emulation runs
• Integrate, bring-up and debug standard interfaces like Ethernet, PCIe, UART, JTAG, I2C, USB
• Integrate and bring-up 3rd party accelerate verification IPs.
• Develop solutions to ensure emulator workload execution performance tracking for the leading-edge performance/throughput.
• Bring up ML/AI applications in emulation – Collaborate with workloads and SW teams, run apps in multi-socket configurations, collect and interpret results for debug and tuning.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• High-level programming ability in System Verilog, C++, Perl or Python.
• Experience with at least one leading EDA Vendor's Emulation or prototyping technologies (Veloce, Ze Bu and Palladium)
• Knowledge about UVM methodology and C-DPI methodology
• Experience in system and subsystem level designs
• CPU/GPU architecture knowledge is a plus
• Experience in RTL design, verification, and embedded FW
• Debugging experience with waveform analyzers such as: Verdi, Visualizer
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
• Understand protocols like Ethernet, DDR5, AMBA, PCIe and CXL standards.
• Power Emulation and UPF based emulation is a plus
• BIOS FW Experience is a plus.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Benefits offered are described:  AMD benefits at a glance.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.