Pre-silicon Validation Engineer - Emulation

• Driving technical innovation to improve AMD's capabilities across validation, including tool and script development, technical and procedural methodology enhancement, and various internal and cross-functional technical initiatives
• Debugging issues found during the process, bring-up, validation, and production phases of SOC programs
• Working with multiple teams, and tracking test execution to make sure all features are validated and optimized on time
• Working closely with supporting technical teams
• Engaging in other software/hardware modeling frameworks

• Significant 5+ years of relevant experience in complex SoC verification & Validation
• Prior hands-on experience with FPGA and/or emulation platforms (Veloce, Palladium, ZEBU, HAPs, Protium)
• Developing C/C++/Uefi based test content
• Validating hardware features for at least 3 or more projects in a pre-silicon environment
• Debugging failures using waveform viewers, log files and microcode trace dumps
• Knowledge of low power design emulation/verification and power management fundamentals
• Knowledge of UEFI, Windows Operating Systems, Linux
• Knowledge of x86 and/or ARM SoC Architecture
• Knowledge of Memory subsystem, high speed IO peripherals like PCIe, USB, NPU, SoC & IP level Power Management flow, Security protocols
• Knowledge of one or more protocols
• USB, AXI, PCI, PCIe, MIPI
• Extensive knowledge of system architecture, technical debug, and validation strategy
• Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and pronounced attention to details
• Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion
• Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering

Good to have Pre-Silicon Validation Experience on SOC, Subsystems , MMIP, accelerators, CPU/Power Management/HSIO -PCIe/USB using Embedded C and BIOS