Physical Design Methodology Engineer for High Performance / Low Power Designs

Austin, Texas•

2 days ago

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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:

Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of power efficiency and high-frequency computing? As a part of our AMD physical design central methodology team, you can help define timing, power, and clocking methodologies for our next-generation, high-performance cores, graphics and machine intelligence chips. This team collaborates across AMD, working on projects ranging from low power APUs to the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

The Person:

In this multi-functional role, you will have the opportunity to work across multiple divisions to drive physical design methodology optimizations across the entire physical design space (library/technology/flows/design). We’re looking for someone with excellent attention to detail, passion and curiosity to resolve complex issues while achieving amazing results!

Key Responsibilities:

Responsibilities may include a subset of the following topics:

Drive PVT corners/ frequency targets while considering various product performance modes and guard bands
Drive IP physical implementation recipes from synthesis to route to achieve the best performance/watt
RTL (architecture) and PD co-development to identify bottlenecks
Drive budgeting, measurement, analysis and tracking of power-consumption
Establish global methodologies and best-known physical implementation recipes for optimal performance/watt across library/flow/Synthesis/P&R environment
Drive best practices for global/local clock distribution methodologies including skew/power/jitter trade-off’s
Create guidelines on clocking/timing/power sign-off methodologies

Preferred Experience:

Expertise in these topics would be a plus:
Design experience in sub-micron processes
Familiarity with CPU and or GPU architecture
Hands on experience with power-analysis and measurement tools like Prime Power and or Power-Artist
Experience with high performance clocking
STA methodologies for timing closure, OCV and other advanced statistical margining techniques
Proficiency in scripting languages such as Perl/Tcl/Python
Proficiency in data analysis and interpretation

Academic Credentials:

MS/PhD degree in Electrical Engineering is preferred
Mastery of logic, circuit design, and CAD tools for high-performance design is expected.

Location: Austin, TX

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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.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

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.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.