Senior Staff Verification Engineer (Tech Lead)

Job Overview

AMD is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Staff Verification Engineer to join our dynamic engineering team in Dublin, Ireland. As a Tech Lead, you will play a crucial role in verifying our next-generation products, ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality and performance. This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in a fast-paced environment, contributing to the development of innovative solutions that transform the world.

Key Responsibilities

• Test Plan Development: Write, implement, and review comprehensive test plans to ensure coverage closure for PCI Express/CXL designs using the latest UVM standards.
• Verification Components: Develop testbenches and verification components such as UVCs, models, BFMs, and reusable verification environments.
• Test Case Management: Write, modify, and maintain random and directed test cases and libraries in SystemVerilog/UVM.
• Coverage Analysis: Analyze functional, code, and test plan coverage to ensure thorough verification.
• Assertion Implementation: Implement assertions, checkers, and monitors to validate design functionality.
• Tool Utilization: Utilize in-house and third-party IP/SOC CAD and EDA tools for design verification.
• Methodology Deployment: Deploy industry-leading verification methodologies such as UVM and formal verification.
• Debugging: Triage and debug regressions, reproducing functional bugs found in silicon in simulation and/or formal verification tools.
• Code Reviews: Conduct and participate in code reviews, providing technical leadership and driving projects from start to finish.

Preferred Experience

• Digital Design: Experience in RTL, Verilog HDL, and ASIC design.
• Programming Languages: Proficiency in SystemVerilog, OVM/UVM/VMMC, C++, Java, or other object-oriented programming languages.
• Scripting: Familiarity with Perl, Ruby, shell scripting, and UNIX/LINUX environments.
• Simulation Tools: Experience with VCS, NCSIM, Questa, or other simulators and associated waveform viewers such as Verdi.
• System Architecture: Knowledge of PC system architecture, including PCI Express, Hyper Transport, x86, ARM.
• Bus Interfaces: Understanding of on-chip bus interfaces and architectures such as AMBA AXI, OCP, PIPE.

Qualifications

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or
• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or
• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

Location

This position is based in Dublin, Ireland, with a hybrid work model allowing for both on-site and off-site work.

Benefits

AMD offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, paid vacation, retirement plans, flexible working hours, and professional development opportunities.

Equal Opportunity

AMD is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.