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Silicon Design Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices
Full-time
On-site
Vancouver, Canada
Level - Mid-Career

Role Overview

The Silicon Design Engineer at Advanced Micro Devices will focus on formal verification, collaborating with experts to establish formal properties and ensure design accuracy. This position demands a keen interest in complex processor architecture and digital verification.

Position Summary

In this role, you will engage with a team of professionals to validate critical design aspects and ensure high verification quality metrics. Your analytical skills will be vital as you tackle problems and contribute to innovative computing solutions.

Experience Level

This opportunity is ideal for candidates with a mid-career level of experience who possess a strong background in digital design and verification processes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive formal verification processes for hardware blocks, drafting properties and assertions.
  • Collaborate with RTL engineers to enhance logic designs, focusing on efficient clock gating.
  • Develop tests, sequences, and components in SystemVerilog and UVM for thorough design validation.
  • Monitor and report on verification quality metrics, including pass rates and code coverage.

Necessary Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated project experience in design concepts and RTL implementation, along with familiarity in using functional and formal verification tools like VCS, Cadence, or Mentor Graphics. A solid understanding of computer architecture is also expected.

Education Requirements

A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering is required for this position.