Job Description

Overview:

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At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences--from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you'll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges--striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.

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Responsibilities:

THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Design Verification Engineer to join our SerDes IP team focused on high-speed wireline transceivers (e.g., PAM4 at 56G/112G and beyond). In this role, you will verify complex SerDes digital and mixed-signal-adjacent subsystems including adaptation/calibration loops, control state machines, datapath DSP blocks, and firmware-configurable features using SystemVerilog/UVM and robust reference modeling.


You will work closely with architecture, design, circuit/modeling, and validation teams to ensure correctness, coverage, and high confidence across PVT, jitter/noise stress conditions, and protocol/feature configurations.

THE PERSON

You enjoy verifying systems where behavior emerges from algorithms + state + timing (not just combinational logic shows up in waveforms). You can translate high-level requirements into a rigorous test plan, build testbench infrastructure that scales, and debug issues with a structured approach using waveforms, logs, assertions, coverage, and model correlation.


You communicate clearly, handle ambiguity by asking the right questions, and drive closure by aligning design intent, models, and verification.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Own verification of SerDes digital IP blocks such as: + DSP datapath blocks (FFE/DFE/filtering, slicing/decoding, saturation/rounding)
+ Control loops and adaptation logic (CDR/MM-like updates, EQ adaptation, calibration flows)
+ ADC interface logic and calibration support (gain/offset/deskew control, monitoring hooks)
+ Clocking/control interfaces and configuration registers
Develop verification plans with clear coverage goals: + Feature/config coverage, corner-case stimulus, error injection, reset/power-state coverage
Build and maintain UVM environments: + Agents, drivers, monitors, sequences, scoreboards, reference models
+ Transaction-level logging and debug infrastructure for fast root-cause
Create realistic stimulus: + PRBS patterns, framed streams, randomized bursty traffic, backpressure
+ Jitter/noise/error injection at the digital interface level (as supported by models)
Drive verification closure using: + Functional coverage, assertion-based checks, scoreboarding/model checking
+ Regression triage and failure minimization
Support simulation acceleration and emulation where applicable: + Runtime optimization, stable builds, reproducible debug flows
Collaborate cross-functionally with modeling, circuit, and firmware teams: + Align RTL behavior to architectural intent and system models (e.g., time-domain/AMI-like)
+ Provide actionable bug reports with clear expected vs observed behavior
Mentor junior engineers and raise team-wide verification quality and reusability

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

5+ Years of experience in the design verification. Strong hands-on experience with SystemVerilog and UVM Proven ability to build scoreboards / predictors / reference models for algorithmic blocks Solid understanding of verification fundamentals: + reset/clocking, CDC safety concepts, corner-case stimulus, coverage closure, assertions
Comfortable with debugging complex issues using waveforms + logs + model correlation Strong programming skills in C/C++ or Python (for modeling, stimulus generation, test infra) is a big plus.

PREFERED EXPERIENCE

SerDes domain experience is not a must. But will be helpful. For example: + Exposure to SerDes / wireline concepts:
- PAM4 vs NRZ, ISI, equalization (CTLE/FFE/DFE), adaptation loops, CDR concepts
+ Experience verifying DSP-style logic:
- fixed-point arithmetic, saturation, rounding, pipeline latency, parallel/serialized datapaths
Experience with performance/throughput verification and stress testing: + backpressure, multi-stream scenarios, long regressions, convergence behaviors
Experience supporting post-silicon bring-up correlation or debug hooks

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field


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