Functional Verification Lead (Memory Subsystem)

AMD; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

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Job summary

AMD Hyderabad seeks an SMTS Engineer to provide technical leadership in high-speed memory controller IP verification. You will drive verification strategies for DDR5/6 RLD3 memory controller, UCIe IP designs, and collaborate with memory teams to ensure functional correctness.

The role requires hands-on verification with memory controllers (HBM, DDR, LPDDR), strong communication, and leadership to influence design teams for quality improvements. On-site India location with global collaboration.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering, MS or PhD with 9+ years in relevant fields.
• Experience with UVM/OVM and Verilog/SystemVerilog test benches.
• Proven leadership of teams of 9+ engineers and cross-group coordination.

Responsibilities

• Lead verification of high-performance memory controllers (HBM, DDR, LPDDR).
• Develop and maintain UVM/OVM testbenches and verification environments.
• Collaborate with design teams to improve product quality and delivery.

Skills

UVM/OVM verification

Memory Controller verification

Team leadership

Communication

Education

BS in EE/CE/CS

MS/PhD preferred

Tools

Synopsys VCS

Cadence IES

Verilog

SystemVerilog

Job description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.
At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future.

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.
At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future.
Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.
SMTS Engineer to provide technical leadership and contribution on high speed Memory Controller IP Verification. The individual will help design, develop and use simulation and/or formal based verification environments, at block and Sun-System level, to prove the functional correctness of DDR5/6 RLD3 Memory Controller, UCIe IP designs.
The ideal candidate is one who has a proven track record on driving strategies and successful verification execution high performance IPs and/or SOC designs.
Require hands on experience with verification of state of the art memory controllers such as HBM, DDR, LPDDR, UCIe. Requires strong understanding of current memory controller protocols and calibration board skew and jitter modeling.
Candidate is expected to be a strong team player with good communication and leadership skills and one who is able to positively and strategically influence the Memory Controller design teams with an eye towards improving overall product quality.

With a proven track record in technical leadership of teams. This includes planning, execution, tracking, verification closure, and delivery to programs.

Qualifications

• BS w/ 12+ yrs or MS w/ 11+ yrs or PhD w/ 9+ yrs in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
• Experience with development of UVM/OVM and/or Verilog, System Verilog test benches and usage of simulation tools/debug environments such as Synopsys VCS, Cadence IES to verify memory controller IPs.
• Proven track record on driving strategies and successful verification execution on Memory Controllers high performance IPs and/or SOC designs.
• Proven track record in technical leadership of teams of 9+ engineers. This includes planning, execution, tracking, verification closure, and delivery to programs.
• Hands on experience with verification of state of the art memory controllers such as HBM, DDR, LPDDR. Requires strong understanding of current memory controller protocols and calibration specification, board skew and jitter modeling.
• Strong understanding of state of the art of verification techniques, including assertion and metric-driven verification. Experience as a verification architect, establishing the verification methodology, tools and infrastructure for high performance IP and/or VLSI designs is a plus.
• Familiarity with verification management tools as well as understanding of database management particularly as it pertains to regression management.
• Experience with formal property checking tools such as Cadence , Jasper and Synopsys is a plus.
• Experience with gate level simulation, power verification, reset verification, contention checking is a plus.
• Prior experience with silicon debug at the tester and board level, is a plus.

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