Pre-Silicon Design Verification Engineer

Role Summary

As a Design Verification Engineer, you will assist in developing the design, verification, and infrastructure components of various digital design blocks within the Graphics Core IP (GFXIP) at AMD. You will collaborate with senior engineers to create test plans for pre-silicon Digital Design Verification, develop testbenches, and monitor regression runs while debugging any encountered issues.

Experience Level

Level - Mid-Career

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architects, hardware engineers, and other DV engineers to understand features to be verified.
• Document test plans, accounting for interactions with hardware, firmware, and software drivers.
• Estimate time required for new feature tests as well as necessary changes to the test environment.
• Develop directed and random verification tests.
• Debug test failures and collaborate with RTL design engineers to resolve design defects.
• Develop functional coverage properties as needed.
• Review and modify functional and code coverage metrics to meet requirements.

Requirements

• Education Requirements: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Science, or a similar field.

Preferred experience includes a solid understanding of Computer Architecture and Digital Design concepts, proficiency in IP level ASIC verification, experience with UVM testbenches and Linux environments, and familiarity with Verilog, System Verilog, C, and C++. Knowledge of scripting languages such as Perl or Ruby, as well as graphics pipeline knowledge, is advantageous.