Design Methodology Engineer Job Listing at AMD in Santa Clara, CA (Job ID 42522-en-us)

Description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. 

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THE ROLE:

We are looking for an engineer with graduate research experience, who can meaningfully contribute to solving very difficult engineering challenges as part of the Cores Advanced Development team. To continue raising the bar on performance, and performance/Watt of our CPU products requires a deep innovation pipeline. The Cores AD team focuses on the areas of power delivery, thermal management, and reliability across all AMD's x86 CPU product portfolio.

THE PERSON:

We want someone who can think out-of-the-box, with a strong set of fundamentals in silicon engineering and architecture and is motivated to solve extremely challenging engineering problems.  Self-direction and curiosity are key characteristics that will make you successful in this role and learn immensely about critical issues facing future high-performance CPUs.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Contribute to the long-term roadmap of the Cores Advanced Development team.
• Data gathering, analysis, and mining.
• Simulation setup, execution, and driving to conclusive results for making engineering evaluations and critical decisions.  Can span the range from circuit simulation to high-level system simulations.
• Prototype new designs and design methodologies. 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Expertise in physical design construction and design methodology, from fundamentals of device physics, circuits/gates to SoCs.
• Experience with industry EDA tools.
• Expertise in scripting languages for automation (i.e. python).
• Experience in a self-directed research project.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

Ph.D. degree preferred, or an M.S. degree with 3+ years of relevant experience.

Location: Santa Clara

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At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package.  Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

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