What are the responsibilities and job description for the Firmware Engineer position at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc?
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THE ROLE:
We are looking for an adaptive, self-motivative Firmware / Logic design engineer to join our growing mixed-signal high-speed IO team. As a key contributor, you will be part of a leading team that drives and improves AMD's ability to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to the market. The Design Engineering team furthers and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.
THE PERSON:
- The successful candidate will possess:
- Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills along with attention to details
- Must be an initiative-taker, able to drive tasks independently and efficiently to completion
- Strong/effective communication skills
- Enthusiastic team-first mentality
- Ability to provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Analyze complex digital design problems and propose architecture/micro-architecture solutions
- Develop Firmware and Firmware validation.
- Develop Verilog RTL and Functional Behavioral Models
- Drive/develop ASIC design flows and scripts
- Create Firmware architecture.
- Create microarchitecture specifications
- Work with the Design Verification team to ensure functional correctness
- Work with the Physical Design team to ensure proper implementation of the design along with timing closure
- Deliver improvements, optimization, and power-saving enhancements
- Support silicon bring-up and diagnostics.
- Support Post-silicon debug, root cause bug, provide solution or workaround.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Proven experience in analog mixed-signal design from specification to successful silicon
- Experience in high-speed interfaces such as DDR, GDDR, HBM, and high-speed SERDES.
- Experience in designs with multiple power domains
- Experience in designs with multiple clock domains
- Experience in behavior modeling for Analog Circuits.
- Experience in industry-standard ASIC CAD tools for simulation, synthesis, STA, CDC, UPF, power estimation, etc.
- Experience in C .
- Strong progressive experience in RTL Design
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
- M.S.c in electrical engineering or equivalent preferred
LOCATION: Folsom, CA
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