CPU Design Engineer

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THE ROLE:

The focus of this role is to plan, build, and execute the power modeling and validation of new and existing AMD CPU designs.

THE PERSON:

You have a passion for modern, complex processor architecture, digital design, and verification in general. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with other engineers located in different sites/timezones. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with architects, hardware engineers, and post-silicon engineers to understand the develop and validate new CPU power models.
• Build implementation documentation for these new models.
• Build the models, and interlock with post-silicon engineers.
• Develop validation methodology for the models.
• Debug model miscorrelation to determine the root cause; develop new methodology to correct for miscorrelations.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Proficient in digital system power estimation.
• Proficient in machine learning algorithms and data-mining algorithms.

• Experience with Verilog, System Verilog, C, and C++
• CPU microarchitecture knowledge
• Experience with CPU architectural profiling.
• Automating workflows in a distributed compute environment.

• Experience in the C++ language, preferably on Linux with exposure to Windows platform
• Scripting language experience: Perl, Ruby, Makefile, shell preferred.

• Exposure to leadership or mentorship is an asset

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Ph.D. degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering

LOCATION:

San Jose, CA; Santa Clara, CA

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