Principal Silicon Design Engineer

Principal Silicon Design Engineer

What you do at AMD changes everything. At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you'll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career.

The Role

Based in our office in Gothenburg, Sweden, we are seeking an outstanding engineer with a passion for processor design and verification to define, specify, develop, and verify new and enhanced functionality in the AMD MicroBlaze V RISC-V processor and other related Intellectual Property cores. You will join a team whose design and development activities cover a wide range of disciplines including specification, implementation, verification, benchmarking and analysis of the processor and cache coherency architectures. This senior role will stretch you as you participate in the microprocessor design team, network with our world-class, patent-holding think-tank, and collaborate with design teams, marketing, and business unit executives.

The Person

You have excellent communication and presentation skills. You are highly adept at collaboration among top-thinkers and engineers alike, ready to mentor and guide, and help to elevate the knowledge and skills of the team around you.

Key Responsibilities

• Improving and extending the MicroBlaze RTL implementation on the next generation architectures both for use by customers and internally for hard blocks in our devices
• Participating in definition of product features and capabilities, based on architecture, and micro-architecture requirements, and develop technical specifications to meet those requirements
• Applying strong software engineering skills to enable the definition, implementation and verification of key application use cases
• Functional/performance validation and analysis of the architecture for various application scenarios
• Technically interact with internal engineering teams, support teams and external customers
• Author product and user guides for the team
• Intellectual Property cores
• Knowledge sharing and other contributions to Platform & System Architecture Support
• Post-Si teams for Product Performance, Power and functional issues debug/resolution
• Teamwork across multiple geographical sites

Preferred Experience

Detailed knowledge of microprocessor architecture, with expertise in CPU design, FPGA architecture, coherency, Security, and Functional Safety. Strong VHDL and System Verilog experience. Verification methodologies such as UVM and formal methods. Well versed in scripting using Tcl, Perl and Python languages. Strong C programming experience. Experience in RTL synthesis, timing optimization, low power design and power optimization. Cache coherency acceleration and industry standard protocols such as CXL. AMD Vivado and Vitis tools. Excellent communication, management, and presentation skills. Adept at collaboration with strong interpersonal skills to work across teams in different geographies.

Academic Credentials

Master’s degree in related discipline preferred.

Location: Gothenburg, Sweden (This role is not based in Stockholm)

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