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Microprocessor SRAM Physical Design Engineer

THE ROLE:

AMD’s Cores Organization delivers industry leading CPU’s and caches that are the foundation of AMD’s server, client, and gaming business.  The candidate will join the Core’s SRAM team based in Austin, TX.  The Core’s SRAM team deliveries dense, fast, and low power custom SRAMs across all of AMD’s businesses.  We are looking for an experienced VLSI physical design engineer to join this team as a technical expert.  The candidate will be a key contributor and technical lead for AMD’s next generation cores and caches. 

THE PERSON:

The candidate should have strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to details.  We work on programs with long timelines, so self-motivation and a commitment to meeting deadlines is required.   We are pushing the envelope on chip performance, so the status quo must be challenged on every program.  This requires creativity and innovation, but also excellent verbal and written communication skills.  We work in small teams, but we are part of a large cross-site Core’s organization, so teamwork is also vital our success.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Technical lead for high speed custom SRAM design in advanced FinFET processes (<=7nm).
• Work closely with RTL and physical designers across multiple sites to optimize power, performance, area, and schedule.
• Solve design and tool problems requiring ground-breaking approaches and champion innovation across the organization.  Create technical presentations for peers and management.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Hands-on experience in high speed (>4GHz) VLSI design
• Excellent understanding of computer architecture, hardware concepts & design tradeoffs.
• Knowledge of spice, static timing analysis, electrical quality analysis (IR drop, coupling noise, electromigration, etc.), physical and logical verification.
• Knowledge of custom analog and digital circuits, high speed flops, synchronizers, level shifters, and SRAM bitcells.
• Knowledge of small signal sensing techniques and analysis, read and write assist circuits and techniques. 
• Familiar with programing languages such as Perl, C, tcl, etc.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

BS/MS in EE, CS, CSE (or similar) preferred

LOCATION:

Austin, Texas, USA

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