GPU Shader Core Verification Engineer

AMD; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD in San Diego seeks a verification engineer for the GPU shader processor core to ensure high-quality hardware features across the design cycle. You will collaborate with architecture, hardware, firmware, and software teams to validate functionality and drive reliable design releases.

You will develop comprehensive verification plans, write directed and constrained-random tests, debug RTL and firmware, and push verification methodologies forward.

Qualifications

• Experience with IP-level ASIC design verification and RTL debugging.
• Strong knowledge of UVM-based verification environments and methodologies.
• Experience debugging RTL and firmware using simulation tools.
• Proficiency with Verilog, SystemVerilog, C, and C++.
• Understanding of GPU architecture and graphics pipeline concepts.
• Experience developing verification frameworks, testbenches, processes, and flows.
• Familiarity with Linux-based development environments; exposure to Windows development is a plus.
• Experience automating workflows in distributed compute environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architecture, hardware, and firmware teams to verify new shader core features.
• Develop verification plans accounting for feature interactions across hardware, firmware, and software.
• Estimate verification effort and identify enhancements to verification environments.
• Design, develop, and execute directed and constrained-random verification tests.
• Debug simulation failures and determine root causes of functional issues.
• Partner with design and firmware engineers to resolve defects and improve design quality.
• Analyze functional and code coverage results and implement improvements.
• Enhance verification methodologies, automation, and test infrastructure.

Skills

UVM-based verification

Verilog

SystemVerilog

C

C++

RTL debugging

GPU architecture

Debugging

Education

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

Tools

Linux

Simulation tools

SystemC

TLM

Job description

AMD in San Diego seeks a verification engineer for the GPU shader processor core to ensure high-quality hardware features across the design cycle. You will collaborate with architecture, hardware, firmware, and software teams to validate functionality and drive reliable design releases.

You will develop comprehensive verification plans, write directed and constrained-random tests, debug RTL and firmware, and push verification methodologies forward.