VLSI RTL Design Engineer

The Role

AMD’s Cores Organization delivers industry‑leading CPUs, caches, and chiplets that are the foundation of AMD’s server, client, and gaming business. We are looking for an experienced VLSI RTL design engineer to join this innovative team. In this role, the candidate will invent and implement the highest performance, most energy‑efficient cache and fabric designs in the industry and will develop into a key contributor and leader for AMD’s next‑generation cores and caches.

We are pushing the envelope on chip performance, so the status quo must be challenged on every program. The ideal candidate is creative, innovative, and possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills. Strong analytical thinking and problem‑solving skills are essential, as is a desire to accomplish goals that many might find impossible. The candidate should be a multiplier, fostering collaboration across a broad spectrum of team boundaries.

• Collaborate with Cache and CPU Architects to design, document, and execute optimized high‑performance cache and routing fabric designs.
• Collaborate with Physical Design to develop RTL that is optimized for physical construction and timing closure.
• Collaborate with Design Verification to develop architecture and features that are documented clearly and are verifiable.
• Collaborate with Design For Test teams to develop RTL that is reliable, testable, and manufacturable.
• Work across global teams to solve complex architectural interactions between IP and SOC designs.
• Develop ways to improve our CPU design by increasing quality, simplifying design complexities through innovation, and improving technical interactions with other teams.
• Solve design and tool problems requiring ground‑breaking approaches and champion innovation across the organization. Create technical presentations for peers and management.

• Prior SRAM, coherent cache or interconnect/NOC RTL design experience.
• Prior experience with digital RTL design, Verilog HDL, software development, and scripting.

• BS/MS in electrical engineering, computer science, or computer science and engineering (or similar), plus 3+ years of hardware design experience.

Ft. Collins, CO; possibly Austin, TX.

Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD and its subsidiaries are equal‑opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third‑party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

We may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.