Sr. Manager Silicon Design Engineering

# Job Description **ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.** At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us. And we’re looking for talent who feel the same: people who want to leave the planet better than they found it, those who don’t shy away from humanity’s challenges but are determined to help solve them. AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high-performance computing, cloud, and AI. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go-to-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. **THE ROLE:** This is a manager role for ASIC Hardware and Firmware Co-Verification Engineering role with the Security IP Team (SECIP) in AMD. The primary focus of this role is to Lead and Manage the team responsible for Hardware/Firmware co-verification of various embedded micro-processor subsystems and the associated hardware accelerators in leading edge SOC’s. The preferred candidate will also have proven experience in Firmware based HW verification and the ability to contribute to Firmware development initiatives. These IP subsystems provide high performance functions to the respective SoC, such as security policy management, cryptography, data compression, high throughput DMA, etc. **THE PERSON:** The ideal candidate has experience leading others in technical and managerial settings. You also have excellent communication, writing, and presentation skills. **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:** * Lead a high-performance engineering team * Form a team and nurture talent * Lead team, meet schedule commitments and provide strong support to customers * Collaborate with multi-functional leaders to drive AMD's success * Responsible to performance review , career development for team member . * Managed the team that is responsible for implementing / executing below task * Hardware/Firmware co-verification in UVM System Verilog and C-DPI structured testbench. * Hardware/Firmware co-verification in FPGA hardware prototype platform. * Develop and maintain subsystem verification architecture, testbench, test methodology for * Embedded CPU and subcomponent IPs with * AXI/AHB busses and HW accelerators such as * Cryptography, Data Compression, DMA, etc. * Participate in subsystem specification, influence IP micro-architecture development (HW and FW co-design and verification aspect), develop and verify abstracted performance model * Create abstracted FW and HW performance models * Develop critical target code to collect IP performance key parameters * Explore subsystem architecture performance trade-off for FW and HW optimization * Drive team to Develop and execute subsystem and block level test plans * Develop FW/HW co-verification methodology * Develop UVC and System Response models * Develop and debug UVM and C-DPI test cases with integrated FW * Improve verification metrics * Further develop subsystem and block level testbenches using UVM randomized test methodology and C-DPI directed test methodology. * Develop and maintain subsystem level integration scripts * Develop and maintain subsystem testbench build and test run scripts * Drive to verification metrics closure * Interface with SoC integration and SoC DV teams * Define and develop IP level DV API to support SoC level DV effort * Develop and maintain IP build and delivery infrastructure to support SoC level integration of SMU IPs. * Support SoC level IP emulation, silicon bring-up and debugging effort **PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:** * A strong leader with experience working with a distributed team * Strong mentoring and coaching skills * Proven experience managing and leading engineering teams * Prior experience in optimizing performance (client, server, system, or embedded) * Strong system and software engineering background * Strong communications skills. Able to summarize complex problems for executives as well as drill down to details with architects and engineers * Strong analytic and problem-solving skills including the ability to analyze current behavior, identify potential areas for improvement and design of experiments * Must be a self-starter and self-motivated * Prior experience Managing technical teams **ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:** * Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering **LOCATION: AUSTIN TX (Open to MARKHAM, ON , OTTAWA, ON)** **This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.** #LI-SL3 #LI-HYBRID *Benefits offered are described: [AMD benefits at a glance](https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/careers/benefits.html). *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.* *AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available [here.](https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/careers/responsible-ai.html)* *This posting is for an existing vacancy.*

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