Fall 2023 DRAM Controller Internship – Timing Design Engineer Co-Op/ Intern | AMD | Santa Clara, California

April 18, 2023

Job description:

AMD is conducting an internship for Engineers.

ONSITE: This is an onsite position – the Intern/Co-op is required to relocate if necessary and work full-time (40 hours) from the Santa Clara office.

Program Term:

AMD is looking for candidates for the Fall 2023 term

Fall: Start Date August 21st, September 11th or September 25th, 2023 – December 15, 2023

Job duties and responsibilities:

Learning about Semiconductor Design life cycles from Concept to Tape Out
Part of the DRAM Controller block, working on real features for a project with a hard deadline
Using your Computer Architecture, Verilog AND Object Oriented programming knowledge to dig into our testbench and fix bugs, support new features
This is primarily a role within the Design Verification team

Key responsibilities:

Synthesize UMC IP using Synopsys tools and work with the micro-architects to ensure the design components meet the project’s area, power, and performance goals
Provide feedback to RTL team to resolve timing, power, area, LINT, DFT, and cross-clock-domain issues
Provide interface to integrate IP blocks into the SOC and resolve the same types of power, timing, area, and formal equivalence checking at the chip level
Analyze design power and devise improvements through architectural or flow optimizations
Work with UMC the architects and the chip floor planning team to develop a custom UMC topology

Skills required:

Strong Digital Logic Concepts
Strong understanding of computer architecture
Ability to Write and Understand intent of Verilog
Shell scripting and Perl/Python for automation, data collection and data analysis
Knowledge of Verification Concepts / Synthesis tools is a plus
Strong algorithmic thinking and Object Oriented Concepts
Must have good teamwork and interpersonal skills
Must be a self-starter, and able to independently drive tasks to completion

Qualifications required:

M.S. Students in EE or Computer Engineering
Strong Computer Architecture / Digital Design fundamentals
Self Starter – someone that will ask lots of questions and be genuinely interested in what they are building