Senior Silicon Design Engineer - DFT

Advanced Micro Devices; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 100,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

AMD in Singapore seeks an adaptive, self-motivated design verification engineer to join our growing team. You will drive verification for next-gen SERDES IPs and SOCs, delivering high-quality patterns and ensuring testability across multi-site projects.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product test teams, hardware engineers, and design teams, focusing on improving scan architecture, ATPG, timing and power closure while maintaining performance.

Qualifications

• Passion for modern, complex processor architecture and verification.
• Strong communication and collaboration with global teams.
• Analytical mindset and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Own generation, validation, and delivery of scan test patterns for SERDES IPs and SOCs.
• Collaborate with product test teams during bring-up and troubleshoot issues.
• Improve scan architecture, coverage, test models, and overall quality.
• Perform ATPG pattern and gate-level netlist analysis to resolve issues.
• Collaborate with physical design engineers to support design closure.
• Address DFT requirements for high-frequency Phy IP designs while minimizing impact.
• Resolve complex interactions between IP and SoC design environments across teams.
• Develop improvements that simplify design complexity and strengthen quality.

Skills

Team collaboration

Excellent communication

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Tessent flows

ATPG tools

IEEE 1149.1 boundary scan

Job description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believetechnology 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 AMDis shapingthefuture.

Whetheryou’redesigning next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, orbringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger— technologythat moves the world forward.Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.

THE ROLE:

We are looking for an adaptive, self-motivative design verification engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD's abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market. The V erification Engineering team furthers and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.

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/timezone s. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the generation, validation, and delivery of scan test patterns for next-generation SERDES IPs and SOCs.
• Partner with product test teams during test bring-up and troubleshoot pattern, model, and netlist issues.
• Improve scan architecture, scan coverage, test models, execution methods, and overall product quality.
• Perform ATPG pattern and gate-level netlist analysis to identify and resolve testability and coverage issues.
• Collaborate with physical design engineers to support design closure through static timing, clock-domain crossing, netlist, and power analysis.
• Address DFT requirements for high-frequency Phy IP designs while minimizing performance impact.
• Resolve complex interactions between intellectual property and system-on-chip design environments across global teams.
• Develop and implement improvements that simplify design complexity and strengthen engineering quality.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with design-for-test methodologies, particularly scan test and automatic test pattern generation with Tessent flows.
• Strong working knowledge of industry-standard ATPG tools and their application to pattern generation, fault coverage, and product quality.
• Experience debugging ATPG patterns, scan structures, test models, and gate-level netlists.
• Understanding of IEEE 1149.1 boundary scan, IEEE 1500 embedded core test, and memory built-in self-test concepts.
• Experience with multi-clock and multi-power-domain designs.
• Familiarity with static timing analysis, clock-domain crossing analysis, static power analysis, and physical design closure.
• Experience adapting standard DFT tools or methods to meet the performance requirements of complex, high-frequency designs.
• Demonstrated success collaborating across design, physical design, product engineering, and geographically distributed teams.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering

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