Senior Product Planning Engineer - Simulation, Security, and Deployment

Advanced Micro Devices; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is seeking a Senior Engineer for Vivado design-tools verification to own verification methodologies and toolchains across UVM, SystemVerilog, and HDL simulations. You will drive the roadmap and collaborate with engineering, sales, and customers to deliver robust FPGA/SoC verification flows.

You will influence product direction, engage with strategic customers, and help extend deployment, licensing, and security features across the Vivado ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Expertise in UVM, SystemVerilog, and HDL simulation.
• Experience owning verification toolchains and methodologies.
• Strong product planning and customer-facing communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define roadmap for verification, RTL encryption, and deployment.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with engineering, applications, and sales.
• Represent AMD in industry standards bodies and ensure interoperability across tools.

Tools

Xcelium

Questa

Riviera

Job description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us. And we're looking for talent who feel the same: people who want to leave the planet better than they found it, those who don't shy away from humanity's challenges but are determined to help solve them.

AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high-performance computing, cloud, and AI. Whether you're designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go-to-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger - technology that moves the world forward.

THE ROLE

As a Senior Engineer for AMD Vivado™ Design Tools, you will serve as the technical owner for verification methodology and simulation technologies, with a primary focus on UVM, SystemVerilog, HDL simulation, and technical product strategy. You will lead the evolution of Vivado's simulation ecosystem, helping customers develop, verify, and deploy complex FPGA and adaptive SoC designs with industry-leading methodologies and tools.

In this highly visible role, you will bridge engineering, product planning, and technical marketing by defining product direction, influencing verification methodologies, and representing AMD to strategic customers and industry partners. You will own the roadmap for UVM-based verification flows, HDL simulation (VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog), Vivado Simulator capabilities, RTL encryption/IP protection, and deployment technologies including installation, licensing, and software delivery.

Working closely with R&D, Applications Engineering, Sales, and key customers, you will translate real-world verification challenges into product innovations that improve productivity, interoperability, and customer success. We operate with an AI-first engineering mindset and encourage the use of AI agents and copilots to accelerate product development, customer enablement, and engineering workflows.

THE PERSON

You are recognized as a technical leader in digital design verification, with deep expertise in UVM, SystemVerilog, and modern simulation methodologies. Beyond your technical depth, you're motivated by shaping product direction, influencing engineering organizations, and working directly with strategic customers to solve their most complex verification challenges.

You can seamlessly transition between defining long-term product strategy, collaborating with engineering teams on new capabilities, presenting verification methodologies at technical conferences, and supporting executive-level customer engagements. You understand both the technical and business aspects of EDA tools and have a passion for improving verification productivity across the FPGA and adaptive computing ecosystem.

You thrive in highly collaborative environments, influence without formal authority, and are comfortable driving initiatives that span engineering, product management, applications engineering, sales, and executive leadership. Your combination of verification expertise, customer focus, and strategic thinking enables you to shape the future of AMD's verification and simulation capabilities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Product Planning:

• Shape the strategic roadmap for simulation, RTL encryption/security, and deployment - translating customer needs, competitive dynamics, and technology trends into a coherent product vision across annual and quarterly planning cycles.
• Drive competitive differentiation by deeply understanding the market landscape - where AMD leads, where we're challenged, and what moves will create the most customer value.
• Define third-party partnership strategy (Xcelium, Questa, Riviera) - ensuring interoperability, certification, and commercial alignment that strengthens the AMD ecosystem.
• Represent AMD in industry standards bodies for IP protection and encryption, influencing the direction of the standards our customers depend on.
• Own licensing and deployment strategy end-to-end - from