Staff Silicon Design Engineer
Boxborough, MAFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Senior Staff IP design lead in AMD's pre-silicon IP design team within the Strategic Silicon Solutions (S3) organization. Leads a team to deliver first-pass silicon across IP subsystems, collaborating with architecture, verification, SOC design, DFT, physical design, and product engineers to enable customer-tailored SoC solutions.
Responsibilities
- Provide guidance on technical issues faced by the design team
- Planning team deliverables throughout the program
- Design of IP subsystems with integration of AMD and other 3rd party IP (ARM, DSPs, NOCs )
- Contribute to the specification and quality checks (lint, CDC, and power rule checks) of power-gated digital designs
- Work collaboratively with other members of the IP team to support design verification, implementation (synthesis, constraints, static timing analysis), and delivery to SOC
- Work in partnership with SOC teams to support the IP at SOC level, including connectivity, DFT, verification, physical design, firmware, and post-silicon bring-up
Qualifications
- Significant full-time experience in IP hardware design
- Experience in subsystem development with embedded processors and data fabric architectures
- Prior technical leadership experience, subject matter expert
- Prior team leadership experience (small/mid-sized team)
- Experience with 3rd party IP integration
- Proficiency in verilog/system verilog RTL logic design of high-speed, multi-clock digital designs
- Power saving techniques, including clock gating and UPF-based power gating
- Detailed understanding of ASIC design flows
- Verilog simulation and lint tools
- CDC/RDC concepts and tools
- Outstanding problem-solving and analytical skills
- Outstanding interaction skills while communicating both written and verbally
- Ability to work with multi-level functional teams across various geographies
- Highly organized, able to prioritize and balance multiple work streams while working to meet and exceed goals
- Academic Credentials: Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering
Skills
Required:IP hardware designSubsystem development with embedded processors and data fabric architecturesTechnical leadershipVerilog/SystemVerilog RTLASIC design flows
Nice to have:Team leadership3rd party IP integrationPower gating (UPF)RTL verification toolsCDC/RDC concepts
Benefits
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