Sr. Staff Silicon Design Engineer

Sr. Staff Silicon Design Engineer at AMD

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. Together, we advance your career.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join the innovative and multi-award winning team that has developed the RF data converter sub-system, including direct-RF digital signal processing, around which Xilinx Zync® Ultrascale+™ RFSoC is built. As part of the Analog and Digital-RF design group you will be working on leading-edge digital communications developments in advanced mixed-signal environment using the latest CMOS processes.

The role requires an experienced digital design engineer to work on all aspects of the front-end digital design flow including architecture specification and RTL design and optimisation, as well as some verification and synthesis. This will involve extensive interactions with the analog design team, digital verification team, synthesis and place-and-route team. The successful candidate will also be expected to perform a technical leadership role within the team and to promote best design practice within the team.

The Person

A successful candidate will work with senior silicon design engineers. The candidate will be highly accurate and detail-oriented, possessing good communication and problem-solving skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Expert front-end design experience in a modern IC / ASIC design environment
• Experience in leading digital IC design teams
• Extensive experience of tools and design flows including RTL design and verification, CDC checking, linting, DFx, power estimation and design for low power
• Expert knowledge of SystemVerilog and logic design concepts
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to work well as part of a collaborative multi-site interdisciplinary team
• Awareness of physical design flows including synthesis, STA, P&R
• Good awareness of physical implementation constraints on design and design optimization

Preferred Experience

• Experience in high speed wireless communications
• Strong knowledge of DSP fundamentals and extensive experience in implementing DSP in ASIC hardware
• Experience of Matlab / Octave algorithm development and architecture modelling
• Experience of power management techniques / UPF
• Experience of designing on the analog/digital boundary
• Knowledge of modern digital verification techniques such as UVM

Academic Credentials

Minimum education level / experience: BS + 8 years, MS + 7 years, PhD + 5 years

Key skills/competency

• Silicon Design
• RTL Design
• Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
• ASIC Design
• SystemVerilog
• Verification
• Synthesis
• Low Power Design
• Technical Leadership
• Mixed-Signal Design