Microprocessor VLSI Physical Design Engineer

About the role

AMD’s Cores Organization delivers industry-leading CPUs and caches that are the foundation of AMD’s server, client, and gaming business. We are looking for an experienced VLSI physical design engineer to join this innovative team as a technical expert. The candidate will be a key contributor and leader for AMD’s next-generation floating-point unit and caches. The candidate will join the team based in Fort Collins, CO.

Responsibilities

• Technical lead for high-speed VLSI design in deep submicron processes.
• Work closely with RTL and physical designers across multiple sites to optimize power, performance, area, and schedule.
• Solve design and tool problems requiring ground-breaking approaches and champion innovation across the organization.
• Create technical presentations for peers and management.
• Guide and mentor junior engineers.

Preferred Experience

• Hands-on experience in high-speed VLSI design.
• Excellent understanding of computer architecture, hardware concepts, and design trade-offs required.
• Knowledge of chip-level floor planning, bus/pin planning, clock tree synthesis, placement, optimization, routing, parasitic extraction, static timing analysis, IR drop analysis, electromigration, physical verification, and sign-off.
• Comprehend complex Verilog RTL and make minor modifications for timing or power.
• Knowledge of digital circuits, high-speed flops, synchronizers, level shifters, and SRAM.
• Familiar with programming languages such as Perl, C, Tcl, etc.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in EE, CS, CSE (or similar), plus 8+ years of hardware design experience.

Location

Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.