Design Verification Engineer

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AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high-performance computing, cloud, and AI. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go-to-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward.

THE ROLE:

The Data Accelerator (DACC) team at AMD is seeking a Silicon Design Verification Engineer who will be involved in multiple aspects of IP verification. This role is an excellent opportunity to work on next generation technologies that are part of AMD’s products powering Servers, Datacenters, Client and Embedded markets. You will join one of the fastest-growing areas of adding custom hardware offload engines to support complex operations like encryption, authentication, compression, GPU/CPU compute offloads & virtual machines live migration. This is a tremendous opportunity to get in early into the rapidly expanding domain of custom hardware accelerators. The Design Verification (DV) group within this team is responsible for developing a scalable DV flow and environment with emphasis on automation (using AI), power and performance verification (PPV) and emulation support. Our management fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase success as well as continuous career development.

THE PERSON:

Highly skilled in advanced ASIC Functional Verification techniques and planning. Eager to learn new designs and implementation techniques. Enjoys an environment where everyone in the team can grow and develop with a sense of global team spirit. Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, excellent attention to detail.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and maintain block level IP verification testbenches, test methodology and infrastructure

• Develop detailed test plans for covering new features

• Triage regressions, debug simulations, analyze coverage, work/resolve technical issues with design, verification and other teams to achieve verification closure

• Deploy industry leading verification methodologies such as UVM, formal verification etc.

• Take end to end ownership of key features for the projects

• Reproduce silicon functional bugs in simulations and/or formal verification tools

• Conduct and participate in code reviews

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Hands-on hardware verification experience

• Proficient in Verilog, System Verilog, UVM and working in Linux and Windows environments

• Familiarity with the hands-on use of AI agents and skills for functional verification

• Excellent programming skills

• Familiarity with Makefiles, scripting languages like perl, python, ruby etc.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering

LOCATION: Markham, ON

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*This posting is for an existing vacancy.