Design Verification Lead

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The Role

AMD is looking for motivated individuals seeking opportunities to solve complex problems in a fast-paced work environment. The successful candidate will be involved in all aspects of AMD's next generation products. This includes verifying PCI Express/CXL design using latest UVM standard and develop comprehensive test plan to ensure coverage closure. Candidate will also apply low power verification methodology and measure overall system performance of our IP. The position allows exposure to all aspect of ASIC design stages. AMD employee contributions are at the core of our technology solutions. Interested about transforming the world?

The Person

• Experience in effectively leading small to medium size design verification team. Analytical thinking, inventive, and Quality-oriented mindset. Strong and effective technical and management communication at the peer and upward management levels.
• Creative innovator and thinker who loves technical problems and detail-oriented tasks
• Exhibits relentless commitment to help the team meet quality and development goals on schedule
• Drives to learn and perform at his or her highest potential in a technical capacity
• Thrives in both a team environment and in individual contribution
• Communicates openly and clearly in meetings, presentations, emails, and reports
• Able to learn independently and acquire new skills required for the job
• Flexible in working hours to accommodate working with co-workers in different time-zones
  
  
  

Key Responsiblities

• Develop new models in UVM or system C++
• Using industrial scripting languages to automate the current working flows
• Execute a project independently with global teams to achieve pre-defined goals in time
• Build up UVM test bench with advanced design verification methodology
• Bring up new design features
• Accountable for project delivery.
• Establishes and maintains AMD's technological leadership position in an area
• Considered technical leader across project and departmental boundaries and has a proven track record for sustained innovation.
• Responsible for projects or processes of significant strategic or commercial importance for project/program results
• Deals with problems requiring cutting edge approaches and champions innovation across the organization
• Makes technical decisions that have a significant impact on product families, go to market strategies and customer satisfaction
• Provides consultative direction with management
• Coaches and mentors experienced staff
• Improve existing test bench to achieve the goals of reusability, configurability, and scalability
• Elevating current ASIC design verification quality and the simulation efficiency to higher level
  
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Rich experience in constructing highly scalability, configurability and reusability DV test bench.
• Strong experience in ASIC design/verification related field in IP, Subsystem or SOC level
• Hands-on experience in writing System Verilog and/or System C models for simulation
• Working experience in writing UVM models, checkers and stimulus, constructing UVM register models and applying constrained random methodology in UVM test environment and stimulus
• Compose test plan and validation vectors to ensure functional completeness
• Experience with design for verification (assertion based design strategies, code coverage, functional coverage, test plan, gate-level simulation, back-annotation etc.)
• Be versatile in any one of the high level verification flow such as SV,UVM, C++ etc. as well as knowledge of industry standard tools for verification
• Have excellent communication skills (both written and oral)
• Strong problem solving skills
  
  
  

Academic Credentials

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering
  
  
  

LOCATION: Markham, Vancouver

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