MTS Silicon Design Engineer (amd)

Job Description

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MTS SILICON DESIGN ENGINEER 

AMD has an opening for a Staff Automotive Functional Safety Engineer in the SOC Functional Safety team. This team is responsible for ensuring compliance to Automotive Functional Safety standard ISO26262 for existing and future generations of the Adaptable Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP).

In this onsite/hybrid role, you will contribute across the following diverse set of activities leading to the certification of our ACAP for usage in automotive applications:

• Requirements management and traceability
• Review of Safety Concept
• Specification of Microarchitecture and creation of reusable RTL components for FuSa library
• Safety Analyses such as DFMEA, DFA and FMEDA on designs that utilize latest technologies from market leaders in ASIC/SOC IP such as Arm as well as internally developed IP
• Guidance and review of verification, fault injection and validation efforts across block level verif/val teams
• Preparation of work products for ISO26262 and IEC61508 assessments

Required Qualifications:

• MSEE with 10 years of experience or equivalent
• Experience with ISO26262 specific safety analyses and work products (FMEA, FMEDA, DFA)
• Experience in designing or analyzing RTL blocks for an SOC, ASIC or FPGA
• Understanding of safety mechanisms such as Parity, ECC, CRC, Watchdog timer, Voltage/temperature monitoring
• Basic understanding of synthesis and place&route processes in SOC/ASIC or FPGA design context
• Understanding of testbenches for verification of RTL designs
• Experience or understanding of fault injection simulations and fault grading
• Simulation and debugging experience using VCS, IES, Verdi or similar
• Experience with silicon validation of processor based designs
• Experience in building automation using scripting languages as PERL, Python or TCL
• Ability to lead others, junior engineers or cross functional teams, through safety analyses

Desired Qualifications: 

• Understanding of verification using UVM and pre-silicon validation using prototyping platforms
• Understanding of ARM architecture and APB, AXI, ACE, CHI protocols and network on chip blocks
• Understanding of common analog blocks such as PLL, ADC, SerDes
• Understanding of multiple power domains
• Experience working in design teams distributed over multiple sites
• Post-silicon validation and debug experience
• FPGA knowledge and emulation experience
• Fluent in working with Linux environment and version control systems such as Git or Perforce

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering

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