AI Design Automation Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in San Jose is seeking a design automation engineer to help build AI-powered engineering platforms for chip design teams. You will develop scalable backend data pipelines, data schemas, and AI/LLM-driven capabilities to transform how engineers access and leverage engineering data.

You will work across software and hardware teams, design robust data models, and optimize retrieval and knowledge-graph components to accelerate CPU/GPU/AI accelerator development.

Qualifications

• Strong Python engineering background with rigorous testing in a large codebase.
• Experience with graph databases and vector search for retrieval workloads.
• Experience with LLM-based/agentic systems: retrieval-augmented generation and tool-use.
• Familiarity with RTL/HDL semantics and HDL toolchains for hardware design.
• Experience with time-series/relational data stores and cross-backend consistency.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend data pipelines turning engineering data into structured representations.
• Evolve data schemas to support new data types at production scale.
• Build AI/LLM-based components enabling natural-language querying of engineering data.
• Diagnose and fix reliability and performance issues in distributed batch pipelines.
• Design new pipelines to bring additional engineering data domains onto the platform.
• Tune LLM components for accuracy, cost, and latency.
• Own a TDD-driven development workflow with version control and code reviews.
• Collaborate with architecture, verification, and design teams to translate needs into platform capabilities.

Skills

Python

Graph databases

LLM-based systems

RTL Verilog

Time-series DB

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/CE/EE

Tools

SystemVerilog

Job description

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THE ROLE:

As an AMD-AECG Design Automation Engineer, you will help build the next generation of AI-powered engineering platforms that enable AMD's chip design teams to find, understand, and interact with complex semiconductor design data. You will develop scalable software systems, data pipelines, knowledge graphs, and AI/LLM-driven capabilities that transform how architects, designers, and verification engineers access and leverage engineering knowledge. Working at the intersection of AI, software infrastructure, and semiconductor design, you will help expand the platform to support new engineering domains, workflows, and agent-based experiences that accelerate chip development.

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate is a strong software engineer with experience building production-quality backend systems and a passion for applying AI to solve complex technical problems. You are comfortable designing data models, building large-scale data pipelines, and developing AI/LLM-based solutions such as retrieval systems, knowledge graphs, and agentic workflows. You thrive in highly technical and ambiguous environments, can collaborate effectively with both software and hardware engineers, and are motivated by the opportunity to build tools that directly impact the design of next-generation CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, build, and maintain backend data pipelines that turn engineering data sources into structured, quarriable representations
• Design and evolve data schemas and queries to support new engineering data types and use cases at production scale
• Build and extend AI/LLM-based components that let engineers query and interact with engineering data using natural language
• Diagnose and fix reliability and performance issues in distributed batch-processing pipelines handling large volumes of data
• Design and implement new data pipelines to bring additional engineering data domains onto the platform
• Tune LLM-based components for accuracy, cost, and latency
• Own a TDD-driven development workflow using the team's version control and code review practices
• Collaborate with architecture, verification, and design teams to translate their data and workflow needs into platform capabilities

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Strong Python engineering background, with rigorous testing discipline (unit/integration/end-to-end) in a large, shared codebase
• Experience with graph databases and/or vector search systems, including schema design and query performance for retrieval workloads
• Experience with LLM-based/agentic systems: retrieval-augmented generation, agent orchestration frameworks, tool-use/function-calling, and awareness of LLM cost/latency/token tradeoffs
• Familiarity with RTL/HDL/Physical Design semantics (SystemVerilog/Verilog/SW/HW modeling, module hierarchy, instantiation, parameters) and toolchains for parsing/elaborating hardware design source
• Experience with time-series/relational data stores and reasoning about consistency across multiple database backends
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: Bachelors/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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