Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) - SoC Emulation

Role Summary

AMD is seeking a Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) to lead SoC Emulation for next-generation AMD SOC products. This role is responsible for defining emulation strategy, driving technical execution, and delivering robust, high-performance emulation platforms that enable early software development and de-risk silicon.

Experience Level

15+ years of experience in SoC design, verification, emulation, or HW/SW co-development.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities include:

• Own the SoC emulation strategy for one or more major AMD SoC programs.
• Define emulation scope, milestones, and success criteria aligned with program and silicon schedules.
• Serve as the technical authority for emulation methodology, performance, and debug.
• Influence SoC architecture and RTL decisions to improve emulation efficiency and debuggability.
• Lead bring-up of full-chip and subsystem emulation on enterprise emulation platforms (e.g., Palladium, Veloce, Zebu).
• Integrate RTL, memory models, testbenches, transactors, and software interfaces.
• Enable early firmware, BIOS, OS, driver, and application software development.
• Debug complex, cross-layer issues spanning RTL, firmware, and software.
• Drive performance optimization, capacity planning, and resource utilization of emulation platforms.
• Partner closely with SoC design, DV, firmware, software, post-silicon, and architecture teams.
• Act as the single-point technical owner for emulation deliverables and readiness.
• Provide clear technical status, risk assessment, and mitigation plans to leadership.
• Support customer, platform, and ecosystem enablement use cases as needed.
• Define and drive automation, CI/regressions, and reuse across emulation environments.
• Establish best practices for emulation bring-up, debug, and software enablement.
• Mentor senior and junior engineers; raise overall emulation capability within AMD.
• Evaluate and deploy new tools, flows, and technologies to improve time-to-value.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Deep hands-on experience with SoC-level emulation platforms (Palladium, Veloce, Zebu, or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of complex SoC architectures (CPU, GPU, interconnects, memory subsystems, IO).
• Expertise in SystemVerilog/Verilog and scripting (Python, Perl, Tcl, Bash, etc.).
• Proven ability to debug and resolve complex RTL and HW/SW interaction issues.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across large, multi-team programs.

Education Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in related discipline preferred.