Spring 2023 Emulation System Engineer Co-Op/ Intern

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THE ROLE:

Come join the team responsible for driving AMD’s Shift-Left strategies, planning and execution of our Client Compute Products, which are used by major OEM and compute solution customers in the world. In this role, you get to interact with multiple stakeholders (firmware/BIOS, SW, IP, DV, system architects) to plan, create, execute, and debug system use cases on emulation/FPGA platforms, in addition to advancing pre-silicon infrastructure to expand validation capabilities.

THE PERSON:

AMD is seeking an emulation system engineer who thrives in an environment that requires creative debugging skills, drive to improve pre-silicon system validation coverage capabilities, and a passion for improving our overall Shift-Left strategies and goals.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for the design and development of test environment components to support the pre-silicon validation of embedded firmware, BIOS code features, SW and directed tests. 
• Responsible for writing directed tests to verify features in a co-simulated and emulated/FPGA hardware environment.
• Responsible for writing monitors and checkers to support end-to-end firmware/hardware validation.
• Responsible for writing and developing coverage goals and test plans. 
• Responsible for running emulator workloads to test new features.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with FPGA and/or emulation platforms (Veloce, Palladium, ZEBU, HAPs, Protium)
• Experience developing System Verilog based test content.
• Experience developing C++, Python, Perl, Ruby, Shell and TCL test content.
• Experience validating hardware features for at least 3 or more projects in a pre-silicon environment.
• Experience debugging failures using waveform viewers, log files and microcode trace dumps.
• Experience debugging software using debuggers and trace files.  
• Knowledge of UEFI, core-boot, Chrome, Windows Operating Systems
• Knowledge of low power and secure boot features
• Knowledge of x86 and/or ARM SoC Architecture
• Knowledge of one or more protocols; SPI, DDR, SATA, USB, AXI, PCI, PCIe, MIPI, WLAN or I2C

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

One of the following combinations of Degree and Experience.

• Pursuing Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering with experience and/or coursework in hardware validation & debug, writing Software modules to validate hardware, in pre-silicon validation environment

Location: Austin, TX

Requisition Number: 186721 
Country: United States State: Texas City: Austin 
Job Function: Student/ Intern/ Temp  

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