Role & seniority: Silicon Design Engineer (lead/front-end IP design) with responsibilities to lead a design team; experienced in ASIC design and production tape-outs.

Stack/tools: ASIC design flow; IP blocks for SOC; verification, implementation, physical design; synthesis; static timing analysis; timing and power optimization; scripting (Perl, Python, Tcl); familiarity with AI-assisted design a plus.

Top 3 responsibilities

Own major portions of design and implementation to meet functional, timing, area, and power targets.
Collaborate with architecture, verification, implementation, and physical teams; lead and mentor design engineers; ensure high-quality designs and successful tape-outs.
Support post-silicon bring-up and communicate progress across multi-disciplinary, global teams; participate in regular status meetings.

Must-have skills

Proven ASIC design experience on production tape-outs; IP block design for an SoC.
Experience with industry-standard simulation tools, synthesis, static timing analysis, and timing/power optimizations.
Strong communication, documentation, ownership, and ability to work across cross-functional teams; scripting ability (Perl/Python/Tcl).

Nice-to-haves

Familiarity with AI-enabled design approaches.
Location & work type: Markham, Ontario; Hybrid work arrangement.

Full Description

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

The Data Accelerator (DACC) team at AMD is seeking a Silicon Design Engineer to lead a talented front-end IP design team. This role is an excellent opportunity to work on next generation technologies that are part of AMD’s products powering Servers, Datacenters, Client and Embedded markets. You will join one of the fastest-growing areas of adding custom hardware offload engines to support complex operations like encryption, authentication, compression, GPU/CPU compute offloads & virtual machines live migration. This is a tremendous opportunity to get in early into the rapidly expanding domain of custom hardware accelerators. Our management fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase success as well as continuous career development.

THE PERSON

A successful candidate will have a strong ASIC design background who has led or participated in several silicon design projects with increasing responsibilities. The candidate will also have a demonstrated history of achieving results through effective execution, problem-solving skills and excellent communication.

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES

Own major portions of the design and implementation of blocks to meet functional, timing, area, and power requirements.
Collaborate with architecture teams to understand the requirements.
Lead and mentor other design engineers to achieve project goals and organizational growth.
Work with verification, implementation and physical design teams to achieve high quality design and successful tape outs.
Contribute in cross-functional teams to solve novel problems across multiple areas in development of required features.
Support post silicon team to ensure successful bring up
Effectively communicate with multi-disciplinary teams across the globe
Attend and present in status meetings on a weekly/bi-weekly basis

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

Proven track record of ASIC design on production tape-outs.

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