Interconnect Micro-architect/RTL Design Engineer
At AMD's Infinity Fabric Architecture and RTL team in Austin, you'll design next-generation coherent interconnects linking CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators. Day to day that means micro-architectural exploration, writing synthesizable Verilog/SystemVerilog RTL, optimizing for power/performance/area/timing, unit testing, and post-silicon debug.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- US,TX,Austin
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Proven experience designing logic blocks in CPU, GPU, NOC, or cache designs
- Excellent knowledge of Verilog and SystemVerilog
- Working knowledge of C, C++ and a scripting language like Perl or Python
- Strong understanding of digital electronics and high-speed designs (>1GHz)
- Good understanding of multi-processor coherency, memory ordering, i/o ordering, interrupts, MMU and caches
- Good debugging and analytical skills
- Exposure to Design for Test, understanding of scan concepts and writing DFT-friendly RTL
- Working knowledge of x86 or ARM ISA
- Bachelor's, Master's, PhD, or equivalent practical experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
Full description
ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.
At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future.
Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.
THE ROLE:
As a member of the Infinity Fabric Architecture and RTL team, you will help build the next generation coherent interconnect to provide connectivity between CPU, GPU and special purpose accelerators. Every product that AMD sells has its own custom-designed Infinity Data Fabric, so this role gives an engineer the opportunity to work on a broad array of products that address a variety of markets, including traditional servers, high-performance computing, client desktop and laptop PCs, machine intelligence, graphics, console gaming, embedded, and customer-specific applications. It is a challenging position that involves working at a fast pace of innovation on the cutting edge of technology. Come join the AMD team!
THE PERSON:
You are an experienced RTL design engineer with strong communication skills. You have a passion for modern, complex processor architecture, digital design as well as verification/design quality. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills, strong analytical & problem-solving skills and is willing to learn and ready to take on problems. You have a global mindset and ability to work in a multi-site environment are keys to being successful in this role.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Early architectural/performance exploration through micro architectural definition and design.
- Optimize the design to meet power, performance, area and timing requirements.
- Write easily readable and synthesizable Verilog RTL.
- Run some unit level testing to deliver quality code to the Design Verification Team.
- Create assertions to improve coverage and cover points to analyze coverage of the design.
- Create well written block level design documentation.
- Participate in post silicon functional and performance debug and tuning.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Proven experience designing logic blocks in CPU, GPU, NOC, or cache designs.
- Excellent knowledge of Verilog and System Verilog
- Working knowledge of C, C++ and a scripting language like Perl or Python
- Strong understanding of digital electronics and high-speed designs(>1GHz).
- Good understanding of multi-processor coherency, memory ordering, i/o ordering, interrupts, MMU and caches.