Design Verification Engineer

Role Summary

The focus of this role is to plan, build, and execute the verification of new and existing features for AMD’s graphics processor IP, resulting in no bugs in the final design.

Experience Level

Level - Mid-Career

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 hardware features/components.
• Estimate the time required to write the new feature tests and any required changes to the test environment, and drive and own tracked related activities.
• Build the directed and random verification tests.
• Debug test failures to determine the root cause; work with RTL and stakeholders to resolve design defects and correct any test issues.
• Review functional and code coverage metrics – modify or add tests or constrain random tests to meet the coverage requirements.
• Coordinate small teams focused on shared product delivery, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• Experience in Digital Design Verification.
• Strong skills with System Verilog and UVM; good skills with Verilog.
• Exposure to both maintaining an existing Verification Environment as well as creating one from scratch.
• Strong skills with functional verification tools by VCS, optional with Cadence and Mentor Graphics.
• Experience delivering design features/functionalities on all stages: specs, test plan, enablement, functional/code coverage closure.
• Strong ownership and drive capabilities, with limited guidance.
• Experience working in a Unix/Linux environment.
• Good scripting skills (Perl, Shell, Ruby).
• Exposure to leadership or mentorship.
• Good computer architecture and cache coherency knowledge.
• Experience working with complex designs (not just I2C and other similar designs).
• Exposure to simulation profile, efficiency improvement, acceleration.
• Exposure to automating workflows in a distributed compute environment.

Education Requirements

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering.