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Job Description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives.

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Role:

The Process Design Kit & Physical Verification department serves as the sole liaison between AMD and our semiconductor manufacturing partners. In doing so, the department is firmly entrenched in the entire silicon design process -- from technology bring up, to the tape-out for pre silicon designs. In this position you will be an integral part of the ASIC design process. The candidate will be responsible for helping the PDK team achieve our mandate, commitment, and goals. Emphasis will be placed on augmenting our PDK quality flows and procedures with applicable and representative test cases. This team is essential to the success of AMD as a growing company. It is a very exciting environment, and you will be working with the very best in our technology. You will be working on some of the most exciting projects the industry has to offer.

The Person:

Ingenuity, excellent communication, and outstanding problem-solving skills will make for an ideal candidate to this role.

Key Responsibilities

Process Design Kit (PDK):

Interface with design teams (including Design, Enablement, CAD, Yield, Project Management) across AMD to capture Process Design Kit (PDK) requirements.

Develop and install key technology files which include DRC, LVS, Spice, PEX and EMIR

Design new regression tests to increase QA coverage of PDK.

Benchmark PDKs across various manufacturing partners (i.e. how does device performance compare?)

Create and monitor PDK testing and prevent design flow interruptions.

Communicate PDK requirements to foundry partners and negotiate release schedules.

Communicate and document all PDK releases to AMD design & enablement teams.

Ensure quick turn-around times to address all urgent PDK disruptions.

Triage PDK issues and drive to resolution

Physical Verification:

Architect and implement advanced layout design rules to insure best in class design.

Assess impact of future DRC, LVS, ERC releases on existing design and make recommendation for Design Team adaptation.

Own and Support tools, flows, and technology files for Design Rule Checking (DRC), Layout vs. Schematic Checking (LVS), and Electrical Rule Checking (ERC),

Collaborate with Design Team in developing new flows and supporting them when issues arise.

Triage Physical Verification issues and drive to resolution

Preferred Skillset and Experience:

Hardware skills: An understanding of analog design concepts such as MOS transistor operation and physical characteristics, logic circuit operation.

Software skills: Ability to develop well-structured and maintainable software. Experience with code testing and regression and their importance.

Experience in UNIX shell environment, Perl scripting, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, SKILL, spice netlist syntax and simulation are assets.

Candidate should have strong written and oral communication skills in order to work well with peers in Toronto and other AMD design sites.

UNIX, C, Perl, Tcl, SPICE, JavaScript and SKILL are assets.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Spice simulation
• Schematic and layout best practices
• LVS, DRC, ERC, boundary & topological physical circuit checks
• Parasitic extraction
• EMIR solutions
• Perl/Shell Scripting
• Software/Infrastructure development
• Foundry relations, Semiconductor manufacturing processes
• Design for Manufacturing and other Reliability topics

  LOCATION:

  Markham, ON

  EDUCATION:

  Computer & Electrical Engineering

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