Staff Silicon Design Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices; Penang; Hybrid; MYR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading semiconductor company in Penang, Malaysia is seeking a candidate for a role focused on planning and executing designs of new IP features. Candidates should have strong skills in RTL coding and experience in ASIC design verification. Excellent communication skills and a passion for complex processor architecture are essential. The role includes responsibilities in delivering high-quality IP for SoCs in a collaborative global environment.

Qualifications

• Passion for modern processor architecture and digital design.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Willingness to learn and tackle challenges.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality IP to SoCs and meet specified metrics.
• Work on various phases of complex logic design for ASIC/SOC projects.

Skills

Strong RTL coding skills with Verilog/System Verilog

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Fluent English communication skills

Understanding of ASIC design verification flow

Experience in complex system IP design

Education

Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering

Tools

Scripting languages (Perl, Ruby, Makefile, shell)

Job description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

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

The focus of this role is to plan, build, and execute the design of new and existing features for AMD’s IP (involving System reset and boot, clocking, advanced power management as well as some sub-IP controllers), resulting in no bugs in the final design.

It is a must that the candidate has one or more of the following experience/knowledge, such as X86/ARM architecture, AMBA(AXI/AHB/APB) bus, USB(4.0/3.0/2.0/1.1; HSIC/host/device/OTG) system, NAND Flash host controller/BCH/double-data-rate interface, PCI-E/PCI bus, low power design, clock generation and control, SD/eMMC host controller, SATA/SAS, Legacy IPs (SPI/SMBUS/ACPI/eSPI/GPIO), General connectivity IPs (I2C/I3C/UART), Ethernet, JTAG, SoC IP integration, etc.

THE PERSON

You have a passion for modern, complex processor architecture, digital design, and verification in general. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with other engineers located in different sites/timezones. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understand the ASIC design/verification flow to deliver high quality IP to SoCs and meet power, area, timing, schedule bounding box, and other metrics
• The successful candidate will work with team members and apply his/her design techniques to work on different phases of complex logic design for ASIC/SOC project. The role will include working on the following tasks from time to time: specification, microarchitecture definition, top level SOC design tasks, HDL coding, simulation debugging, timing, silicon debugging, etc.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Good understanding on ASIC design verification flow
• Strong RTL coding skills with Verilog/System Verilog
• Familiar with Front-End design and implementation flow
• Knowledge on synthesis, STA, CDC, RDC, UPF, etc.
• Strong knowledge on AMBA(AXI/AHB/APB) bus
• Good experience on system IP design in complex SoC, system reset and boot, advanced power management, clocking and etc
• Low power design experience, or Network-on-chip experience is a plus
• Scripting language experience: Perl, Ruby, Makefile, shell preferred
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with global projects colleague
• Fluent English communication skills(listening, speaking and writing)
• Exposure to leadership or mentorship is an asset.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering.

LOCATION: Penang, Malaysia

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