AMD · 1 week ago
Principle Pre-Silicon Verification Lead/Manager
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$221K/yr - $332K/yrAMD is a leading company in next-generation computing experiences, focusing on innovation and collaboration. The role involves leading a verification team responsible for developing a scalable UVM based verification environment for complex IP blocks, ensuring timely project completion and fostering team growth.
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Hiring Manager
Matthew Fesl
Responsibilities
Own the functional verification of a state-of-the-art industry leading Data Fabric IP for AMD’s CPUs, GPUs and APUs
Partner with members of the team for scoping work, resources, dependencies, and potential risks for project milestone scheduling
Track project progress and ensure projects stay on track for timely completion
Guide and develop people at several different levels of experience to encourage career growth and progression
Represent the team in project planning, management, and cross functional meetings
Provide technical guidance and innovative ideas to improve quality, processes, and productivity
Help drive the strategic roadmap that scales the overall verification and team capacity across multiple product generations
Qualification
Required
Strong technical and leadership skills
Experience in developing an efficient, scalable UVM based verification environment to exercise large, complex IP blocks
Ability to lead the team through the full verification lifecycle, from planning and implementing innovative verification strategies to collecting and closing coverage
Establish a collaborative environment that fosters innovation and verification best practices
Conduct and participate in test plan reviews, code reviews, developing scalable verification components, random-constrained stimulus, and debugging regression failures
Manage project schedules, deliverables, dependencies, and risk mitigation plans
Mentor, provide technical guidance, and further develop the team
Global mindset and ability to lead in a multi-site environment
Preferred
Experience leading verification teams on complex CPU/ASIC projects from inception to tape-out
Solid understanding and experience of functional design verification, including but not limited to test bench architecture, coverage, random constrained testing, and debug
Excellent organizational, communication, and project management skills
History of successfully managing project dependencies and deliverables with internal customers across a board range of steps across verification deliverables
Future planning designed to build deeper, cohesive technical ownership for specific, complex verification components that will be reused for multiple generations, thereby improving quality and reducing ramp-up time
Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer architecture, or Computer Science with a focus on computer architecture is preferred
Benefits
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AMD
Advanced Micro Devices is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Founded in 1969
10001+ employees
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