Staff Engineer - SerDes Verification

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

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Job summary

AMD in Singapore is seeking a SerDes Verification Engineer to verify high-speed SerDes interfaces, focusing on signal integrity, timing, and protocol compliance. You will develop and run testbenches, perform simulations, and work with RTL, hardware, and firmware teams across time zones.

You will drive formal verification, debug failures, and build automated regression tests to ensure robustness across multiple silicon iterations. Strong HDL and scripting skills are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Experience in SerDes verification or high-speed communication verification.
• Strong hands-on experience with verification methodologies such as UVM, SystemVerilog, or other simulation-based verification tools.
• Knowledge of high-speed serial protocols such as UCIe, PCIe, Ethernet, USB, DDR, or custom protocols.
• Experience in analyzing and interpreting signal integrity issues, jitter, BER, and eye diagrams.
• Solid understanding of SerDes architectures, link training, and equalization.
• Strong debugging skills, with the ability to work across multiple domains (timing, protocol, performance).
• Familiarity with HDL languages like VHDL or Verilog.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Experience with DDR protocol (DDR3/DDR4/DDR5) for memory interface verification.
• Understanding of UCIe protocol and its role in chiplet-to-chiplet communication.
• Experience with Python, Perl, or similar scripting languages for automation.

Responsibilities

• Verification of SerDes designs across IPs and subsystems to meet functional and performance requirements.
• Develop testbenches and drive formal verification; write properties and assertions.
• Design verification tests and estimate test coverage and required changes to test env.
• Create verification testbenches using UVM/SystemVerilog/VHDL.
• Run simulations, analyze results, and debug timing and protocol issues in SerDes blocks.
• Evaluate performance metrics: jitter, BER, eye diagrams, signal integrity.
• Test protocol compliance for UCIe, PCIe, Ethernet, USB, DDR, DisplayPort, etc.
• Develop automated regression tests for multiple design versions.
• Collaborate with RTL, hardware, and firmware teams; document results.

Skills

UVM

SystemVerilog

SerDes verification

Signal integrity

Debugging

Python scripting

DDR protocols

PCIe

UCIe

HDL Verilog/VHDL

Education

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering

Tools

Verilog

VHDL

UVM environment tools

Job description

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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:

The role involves building UVM/SystemVerilog testbenches, running simulations, debugging timing and protocol issues, and evaluating signal integrity, jitter, BER, and eye diagrams. Close collaboration with design and hardware teams ensures compliance with protocols such as UCIe, PCIe, and DDR, delivering reliable, high‑performance silicon.

THE PERSON:

As a SerDes Verification Engineer, you will be responsible for the verification and validation of high-speed SerDes interfaces, including testing signal integrity, performance, and protocol compliance. You will work closely with hardware and design teams to ensure that SerDes designs meet the required specifications, operating parameters, and quality standards. 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:

• Verification of SerDes Designs:
  • Develop and execute verification plans and testbenches for SerDes IPs (Intellectual Property) and subsystems to ensure they meet functional and performance requirements.
  • Drive formal verification for the block and write formal properties and assertions to verify the design.
  • Estimate the time required to write the new feature tests and any required changes to the test environment.
  • Build the directed and random verification tests.
  • Review functional and code coverage metrics – modify or add tests or constrain random tests to meet the coverage requirements
• Testbench Development: Design and implement verification testbenches using industry‑standard verification methodologies (e.g., UVM, SystemVerilog, VHDL).
• Simulation and Debugging:
  • Perform simulations, analyze results, and debug issues related to timing, protocol errors, and other design anomalies in SerDes blocks.
  • Debug test failures to determine the root cause; work with RTL and firmware engineers to resolve design defects and correct any test issues
• Performance Evaluation: Evaluate and validate performance characteristics of SerDes systems including jitter, bit error rates (BER), signal integrity, eye diagrams, and other key metrics.
• Protocol Compliance Testing: Verify adherence to relevant SerDes protocols such as UCIe, PCIe, Ethernet, USB, DDR, DisplayPort, or custom protocols.
• Automated Testing: Develop automated regression tests to ensure the robustness and stability of the SerDes design over multiple versions and iterations.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the design, hardware, and software teams to troubleshoot issues, implement fixes, and verify design changes.
• Documentation: Create detailed reports and documentation on verification results, test scenarios, and issues found during testing.
• Continuous Improvement: Provide feedback for design and verification process improvements and contribute to innovation in verification strategies and methodologies

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in SerDes verification or high-speed communication verification.
• Strong hands‑on experience with verification methodologies such as UVM, SystemVerilog, or other simulation‑based verification tools.
• Knowledge of high-speed serial protocols such as UCIe, PCIe, Ethernet, USB, DDR, or custom protocols.
• Experience in analyzing and interpreting signal integrity issues, jitter, BER, and eye diagrams.
• Solid understanding of SerDes architectures, link training, and equalization.
• Strong debugging skills, with the ability to work across multiple domains (timing, protocol, performance).
• Familiarity with hardware description languages (HDL) like VHDL or Verilog.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills.
• Experience with DDR protocol(e.g., DDR3, DDR4, DDR5) for memory interface verification.
• Understanding of UCIe protocoland its role in chiplet‑to‑chiplet communication.
• Experience with Python, Perl, or similar scripting languages for automation.
• Exposure to high-speed memory interface design and verification, including DDR controller IP verification.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment and manage multiple verification tasks.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering

LOCATION:

Singapore

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